Dictionary Entry
wrinkle
wrinkle is a 7-letter English word with 14 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A winkle. Face value is 14 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
7 letters · Scrabble 14 · Words With Friends 16 · 14 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
A winkle.
- 2noun
A small ridge, prominence, or furrow formed by the shrinking or contraction of any smooth substance; a corrugation; a crease; a slight fold; as, wrinkle in the skin; a wrinkle in cloth.
- 3noun
hence, any roughness; unevenness.
- 4noun
A notion or fancy; a whim; as, to have a new wrinkle.
- 5transitive verb
To contract into furrows and prominences; to make a wrinkle or wrinkles in; to corrugate; as, wrinkle the skin or the brow.
- 6transitive verb
Hence, to make rough or uneven in any way.
- 7intransitive verb
To shrink into furrows and ridges.
- 8noun
a clever method of doing something (especially something new and different)
- 9noun
a minor difficulty
"they finally have the wrinkles pretty well ironed out"
- 10noun
a slight depression in the smoothness of a surface
"his face has many lines"
"ironing gets rid of most wrinkles"
- 11verb
become wrinkled or crumpled or creased
"This fabric won't wrinkle"
- 12verb
make wrinkled or creased
"furrow one's brow"
- 13verb
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"
- 14verb
gather or contract into wrinkles or folds; pucker
"purse ones's lips"
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