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  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Wrinkle  \Wrin"kle\,  v.  t.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Wrinkled};  p.  pr  &  vb 
  n.  {Wrinkling}.] 
  1.  To  contract  into  furrows  and  prominences;  to  make  a 
  wrinkle  or  wrinkles  in  to  corrugate;  as  wrinkle  the  skin 
  or  the  brow.  ``Sport  that  wrinkled  Care  derides.'' 
  --Milton. 
 
  Her  wrinkled  form  in  black  and  white  arrayed. 
  --Pope. 
 
  2.  Hence  to  make  rough  or  uneven  in  any  way 
 
  A  keen  north  wind  that  blowing  dry,  Wrinkled  the 
  face  of  deluge,  as  decayed.  --Milton. 
 
  Then  danced  we  on  the  wrinkled  sand.  --Bryant. 
 
  {To  wrinkle  at},  to  sneer  at  [Obs.]  --Marston. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  wrinkled 
  adj  1:  marked  with  wrinkles  or  furrows;  "her  ancient  wrinkled 
  cheeks"  [syn:  {wrinkly}] 
  2:  made  or  become  wrinkled  as  by  crushing  or  folding;  "tired 
  travelers  in  wrinkled  clothes"  [ant:  {unwrinkled}] 
  3:  (of  linens  or  clothes)  not  ironed;  "a  pile  of  unironed 
  laundry";  "wore  unironed  jeans"  [syn:  {unironed}]  [ant:  {ironed}] 




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