Word Finder - wrinkled

definition

To make wrinkles in; to cause to have wrinkles.

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Be careful not to wrinkle your dress before we arrive.

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To pucker or become uneven or irregular.

example

An hour in the tub will cause your fingers to wrinkle.

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(of skin) To develop irreversibly wrinkles; to age.

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The skin is the substance that wrinkles, shows age, stretches, scars and cuts.

definition

To sneer (at).

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(of a surface) Uneven, with many furrows and prominent points, often in reference to the skin or hide of animals.

example

As the ocean receded from the beach it left the sand appearing wrinkled.

synonyms

• bewrinkled
• rugose
• wrinkly

She wrinkled her nose and hacked at the grass again.

Fred turned over a wrinkled nametag.

Rachel wrinkled her nose.

She leaned toward him and wrinkled her nose.

And what about her clothes - all wrinkled and dirty.

His face was much wrinkled and his eyes deep set.

She wrinkled her nose and darted past him playfully.

Lori wrinkled her nose at Josh.

You also won't have to worry about getting the dress wrinkled before the wedding.

It's almost dry and I hate it when it gets all wrinkled.

If you allow your nightgown to hang out in the dryer, you may have wrinkled pajamas.

The tissue underneath the skin also thins and changes, adding to the wrinkled or sagged appearance.

Her eyes fell to the fish, and her nose wrinkled.

Wrinkled and puckered by exposure to the weather, the faces even of the younger Lapps assume an appearance of old age.

The sheer black top stole all the attention from the lower half of the dress - a long, flowing skirt with a bit of a wrinkled finish through the train.

Samsonite's Dual Voltage Fabric Steamer solves the problem that so many travelers face - wrinkled clothing with no iron or ironing board available.

Working out a lot--especially cardio exercise--can decrease your cup size but leave you with a bit of sagging, wrinkled skin at first.

There's a gap between your breast and the bra cup, or the bra cup is wrinkled.

Laser Resurfacing, also known as a laser peel, is accomplished by using a CO2 laser to vaporize wrinkled skin one layer at a time.

Commercial cubebs consist of the dried berries, usually with their stalks attached; the pericarp is greyish-brown, or blackish and wrinkled; and the seed, when present, is hard, white and oily.

It is not so handsome as Emodi, but will grow in drier places, and its glossy, wrinkled leaves, borne umbrella-like on a long bare stem, are distinct and interesting.

Don't just throw on a wrinkled shirt and jeans.

Rhododendron Falconeri - A noble kind thriving in Cornish gardens, with oblong leaves about 10 inches long, coated beneath with reddish down, dark green, slightly downy and curiously wrinkled above.

If it stays scrunched or wrinkled, it's not the suit for you because it will do the same when you wear it.

She rarely combed her hair, owned no more than three or four shapeless dresses, which appeared in all seasons, most of which were stained and wrinkled.

She wrinkled her nose at him and pointed at his plate.

She wrinkled her nose and pulled away from him.

The sheep-like saiga, Saiga tatarica, of the Kirghiz steppes stands apart from all other antelopes by its curiously puffed and trunk-like nose, which can be wrinkled up when the animal is feeding and has the nostrils opening downwards.

Dana introduced the term "as" for this rough kind of lava-stream, whilst he applied the term "pahoehoe" to those flows which have a smooth surface, or are simply wrinkled and ropy; these terms being used in this sense in Hawaii, in relation to the local lavas.

A widespread disease known as pocket-plums or bladderplums is due to an ascomycetous fungus, Exoascus pruni, the mycelium of which lives parasitically in the tissues of the host plant, passes into the ovary of the flower and causes the characteristic malformation of the fruit which becomes a deformed, sometimes curved or flattened, wrinkled dry structure, with a hollow occupying the place of the stone; the bladder plums are yellow at first, subsequently dingy red.

The gonad is transversely wrinkled and lies between the aorta and the intestine, extending from the pericardium to the anterior end of the body.

The seed consists of a thin, hard testa or shell, enclosing a wrinkled kernel, which, when dried, is the nutmeg.

As seen in commerce jujube fruits are about the size of a small filbert, having a reddish-brown, shining, somewhat wrinkled exterior, and a yellow or gingerbread coloured pulp enclosing a hard elongated stone.

Beardless and shrivelled, writes Sir John Malcolm, it resembled that of an aged and wrinkled woman, and the expression of his countenance, at no time pleasant, was horrible when clouded, as it very often was, with indignation.

In Honduras sarsaparilla the roots are less wrinkled, and the bark is whiter and more starchy, than in the Jamaica kind.

Numerous circular pits occur on the concentric ridges of the depressed and wrinkled crown, marking the position of former inflorescences borne in the leaf-axil at different stages in the growth of the plant.

The wool, densely set on a wrinkled skin, is white and generally fine, although it is classified into long, short, fine and strong.

It contained only stained and wrinkled sheets.

Jake Weller was seated in his familiar position behind his desk dressed in his wrinkled uniform.

Signs of malnutrition include visible ribs, hips and neck and perhaps a rather baggy, wrinkled skin.

When a wrinkled skyscraper is flabby, voip phone blithe computer support competes with the often cantankerous abstraction.

It is said that when old people eat figs frequently, their wrinkled skin fills out.

The wedge shaped face with the wrinkled forehead are also peculiar to the breed.

We think of an old, wrinkled hag with a nasty wart on her nose.

Habanero Orange Plant produces heavy yields of 40mm long by 30mm wide wrinkled hot peppers.

Why does the skin of the fingers and toes become wrinkled after prolonged immersion in water?

The fault was finally traced to slipped timing and a beaming smile once again shone from beneath Douglas ' wrinkled brow.

One leg was patched up with an untidy bandage kept in position by a wrinkled stocking.

Throughout the brown colored varnish is wrinkled, probably due to wood shrinkage.

If your hemline touches the ground and "drags," you might find that the leg of your trousers gets wrinkled and rumpled.