crease
crease is a 6-letter English word with 11 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: See Creese. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- noun. See Creese.
- noun. A line or mark made by folding or doubling any pliable substance; hence, a similar mark, however produced.
- noun. One of the lines serving to define the limits of the bowler and the striker.
- transitive verb. To make a crease or mark in, as by folding or doubling.
- noun. a Malayan dagger with a wavy blade
- noun. a slight depression in the smoothness of a surface
"his face has many lines"
"ironing gets rid of most wrinkles"
- noun. an angular or rounded shape made by folding
"a fold in the napkin"
"a crease in his trousers"
- verb. become wrinkled or crumpled or creased
"This fabric won't wrinkle"
- verb. scrape gently
"graze the skin"
- verb. make wrinkled or creased
"furrow one's brow"
- verb. 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"
Synonyms
creese, kris, crinkle, furrow, line, seam, wrinkle, bend, crimp, flexure, fold, plication, crumple, rumple, graze, rake, crisp, ruckle, scrunch
Anagrams
Other playable words that use exactly the letters in crease:
cesare, ecrase, recase, searce
Common word forms
creased, creaser, creases, creasing, creaseless
Words from these letters
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