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wrinkled

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wrin·kle  (rngkl)
n.
1. A small furrow, ridge, or crease on a normally smooth surface, caused by crumpling, folding, or shrinking.
2. A line or crease in the skin, as from age.
3. A clever trick, method, or device, especially one that is new and different.
4. A problem or imperfection; a fault: The report had to be revised because of a few wrinkles.
v. wrin·kled, wrin·kling, wrin·kles
v.tr.
1. To make wrinkles or a wrinkle in.
2. To draw up into wrinkles; pucker: wrinkled her nose in disdain.
v.intr.
To form wrinkles.

[Middle English, back-formation from wrinkled, wrinkled, probably from Old English gewrinclod, past participle of gewrinclian, to wind, crease; see wer-2 in Indo-European roots.]

wrinkly adj.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.wrinkledwrinkled - marked by wrinkles; "tired travelers in wrinkled clothes"
furrowed, rugged - having long narrow shallow depressions (as grooves or wrinkles) in the surface; "furrowed fields"; "his furrowed face lit by a warming smile"
unwrinkled, wrinkleless - not wrinkled or creased
2.wrinkledwrinkled - (of linens or clothes) not ironed; "a pile of unironed laundry"; "wore unironed jeans"
rough, unsmooth - having or caused by an irregular surface; "trees with rough bark"; "rough ground"; "rough skin"; "rough blankets"; "his unsmooth face"
Translations

wrinkled [ˈrɪŋkld], wrinkly [ˈrɪŋklɪ] adj [fabric, paper etc] → arrugado
wrinkled [ˈrɪŋkld], wrinkly [ˈrɪŋklɪ] adj [fabric, paper] → froissé(e)plissé(e); [surface] → plissé; [skin] → ridé(e)plissé
wrinkled [ˈrɪŋkld] wrinkle adj [fabric, paper] → zerknittert; [surface] → gekräuselt; [skin] → runzlig
wrinkled [ˈrɪŋkld], wrinkly [ˈrɪŋklɪ] adj [fabric, paper] → stropicciato/a; [surface] → corrugato/a, increspato/a; [skin] → rugoso/a


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A Fox asked him, "How can you pretend to prescribe for others, when you are unable to heal your own lame gait and wrinkled skin?
His sunken eyes glittered and his wrinkled lips moved over toothless gums as he mumbled weird incantations to the demons of his cult.
Beads of perspiration followed the seams of his high, wrinkled forehead, replacing the tears which might have lessened the pressure upon his overwrought nerves.
 
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