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crease  (krs)

n.

1. A line made by pressing, folding, or wrinkling.

2. Sports

a. A rectangular area marked off in front of the goal in hockey and lacrosse.

b. One of the lines in cricket marking off the positions of the bowler and batter or the space between two of these lines.

v. creased, creas·ing, creas·es

v.tr.

1. To make a pressed, folded, or wrinkled line in.

2. To graze or wound superficially with a bullet.

v.intr.

To become wrinkled.

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[Alteration of creaste, perhaps from Middle English creste, ridge; see crest.]

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creaseless adj.

creaseproof adj.

creaser n.

creasy adj.

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crease

Noun

1. a line made by folding or pressing

2. a wrinkle or furrow, esp. on the face

3. Cricket any of four lines near each wicket marking positions for the bowler or batsman

Verb

[creasing, creased]

to make or become wrinkled or furrowed [Middle English crēst]

creasy adj

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	crease - an angular or rounded shape made by folding; "a fold in the napkin"; "a crease in his trousers"; "a plication on her blouse"; "a flexure of the colon"; "a bend of his elbow" crimp, fold, plication, flexure, bend pleat, plait - any of various types of fold formed by doubling fabric back upon itself and then pressing or stitching into shape angular shape, angularity - a shape having one or more sharp angles twirl, kink, twist - a sharp bend in a line produced when a line having a loop is pulled tight pucker, ruck - an irregular fold in an otherwise even surface (as in cloth)
	2.	crease - a slight depression in the smoothness of a surface; "his face has many lines"; "ironing gets rid of most wrinkles" crinkle, wrinkle, seam, furrow, line cutis, skin, tegument - a natural protective body covering and site of the sense of touch; "your skin is the largest organ of your body" imprint, impression, depression - a concavity in a surface produced by pressing; "he left the impression of his fingers in the soft mud" crow's feet, crow's foot, laugh line - a wrinkle in the skin at the outer corner of your eyes dermatoglyphic - the lines that form patterns on the skin (especially on the fingertips and the palms of the hands and the soles of the feet) frown line - a facial wrinkle associated with frowning life line, lifeline, line of life - a crease on the palm; its length is said by palmists to indicate how long you will live heart line, line of heart, love line, mensal line - a crease on the palm; palmists say it indicates your emotional nature line of destiny, line of fate, line of Saturn - a crease on the palm; palmists say it indicates how successful you will be
	3.	crease - a Malayan dagger with a wavy blade creese, kris dagger, sticker - a short knife with a pointed blade used for piercing or stabbing
Verb	1.	crease - make wrinkles or creases on a smooth surface; make a pressed, folded or wrinkled line in; "The dress got wrinkled"; "crease the paper like this to make a crane" crinkle, crisp, ruckle, scrunch up, wrinkle, scrunch fold, fold up, turn up - bend or lay so that one part covers the other; "fold up the newspaper"; "turn up your collar" pucker, rumple, cockle, crumple, knit - to gather something into small wrinkles or folds; "She puckered her lips" ruck, ruck up, pucker - become wrinkled or drawn together; "her lips puckered"
	2.	crease - make wrinkled or creased; "furrow one's brow" furrow, wrinkle fold, fold up, turn up - bend or lay so that one part covers the other; "fold up the newspaper"; "turn up your collar"
	3.	crease - scrape gently; "graze the skin" graze, rake brush - touch lightly and briefly; "He brushed the wall lightly" shave - touch the surface of lightly; "His back shaved the counter in passing"
	4.	crease - become wrinkled or crumpled or creased; "This fabric won't wrinkle" crinkle, rumple, wrinkle, crumple fold up, fold - become folded or folded up; "The bed folds in a jiffy"

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crease

noun 1. fold, ruck, line, tuck, ridge, groove, pucker, corrugation

noun 2. wrinkle, line, crow's-foot

verb 3. crumple, rumple, pucker, crinkle, fold, ridge, double up, crimp, ruck up, corrugate

verb 4. wrinkle, crumple, screw up

Translations

crease [kriːs] n (= fold) → pliegue m;

(in trousers) → raya (= wrinkle); arruga

vt (= fold) → doblar, plegar (= wrinkle); arrugar

vi (= wrinkle up) → arrugarse

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crease [kriːs] n → pli m

vt → froisser, chiffonner

vi → se froisser, se chiffonner

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crease [kriːs] n → Falte f;

(in trousers) → Bügelfalte f

vt → zerknittern;

(forehead) → runzeln

vi → knittern;

(forehead) → sich runzeln

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crease [kriːs] n → grinza;

(deliberate) → piega

vt → sgualcire

vi → sgualcirsi