If you work to iron a stubborn wrinkle out of your shirt, you're trying to smooth out a crease. A wrinkle is a dent or line where that smoothness is interrupted.
A winkle.
Noun
a clever method of doing something (especially something new and different)
Noun
a minor difficulty; "they finally have the wrinkles pretty well ironed out"
Noun
a slight depression in the smoothness of a surface; "his face has many lines"; "ironing gets rid of most wrinkles"
Verb
become wrinkled or crumpled or creased; "This fabric won''t wrinkle"
Verb
make wrinkled or creased; "furrow one''s brow"
Verb
make wrinkles or creases into a smooth surface; "The dress got wrinkled"
Verb
gather or contract into wrinkles or folds; pucker; "purse ones''s lips"
n.
A winkle.
n.
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.
n.
hence, any roughness; unevenness.
n.
A notion or fancy; a whim; as, to have a new wrinkle.
v. t.
To contract into furrows and prominences; to make a
wrinkle or wrinkles in; to corrugate; as, wrinkle the skin or the brow.
v. t.
Hence, to make rough or uneven in any way.
v. i.
To shrink into furrows and ridges.
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Within I do not find wrinkles and used heart, but unspent youth.2.
Not the least wrinkle to deform the sky.3.
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Her wrinkled form in black and white arrayed.2.
A keen north wind that, blowing dry, Wrinkled the face of deluge, as decayed.
Then danced we on the wrinkled sand.
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A winkle.
A small ridge, prominence, or furrow formed by the shrinking or contraction of any smooth substance; a corrugation; a crease; a slight fold;
To contract into furrows and prominences; to make a wrinkle or wrinkles in; to corrugate;
To shrink into furrows and ridges.
Usage Examples
Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.
What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.
Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.
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Other Usage ExamplesAll in all, for someone who was immersed in, fascinated by, and dedicated to flight, I was disappointed by the wrinkle in history that had brought me along one generation late. I had missed all the great times and adventures in flight.
I'm getting a wrinkle above my eyebrow because I just can't stop lifting it, and I love that you know.
The latest wrinkle is on wrinkles. There is a widespread belief that women can't grow old in television news.
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