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Entry 7 senses · 4 variants Webster, 1913

Wrinkle

/rĭng'-kəl/ · Wrin·kle · IPA /ˈɹɪŋkl̩/
01 n. A winkle.
  1. 1.
    A winkle.[Local, U. S.]
02 n. A small ridge, prominence, or furrow formed by the shrinking or contraction of any smooth substance; a corrugation; a crease; a slight fold…
  1. 1.
    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.
    “Within I do not find wrinkles and used heart, but unspent youth.” — Emerson.
  2. 2.
    hence, any roughness; unevenness.
    “Not the least wrinkle to deform the sky.” — Dryden.
  3. 3.
    A notion or fancy; a whim; as, to have a new wrinkle.[Colloq.]
03 v. t. To contract into furrows and prominences; to make a wrinkle or wrinkles in; to corrugate; as, wrinkle the skin or the brow.
imp. & p. p. Wrinkled; p. pr. & vb. n. Wrinkling
  1. 1.
    To contract into furrows and prominences; to make a wrinkle or wrinkles in; to corrugate; as, wrinkle the skin or the brow.
    “Her wrinkled form in black and white arrayed.” — Pope.
  2. 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.
Phrases & compounds
To wrinkle at — to sneer at.
04 v. i. To shrink into furrows and ridges.
  1. 1.
    To shrink into furrows and ridges.