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Pos: Noun, Verb (usu participle)
[WORDNET DICTIONARY]

Noun wrinkle has 3 senses

1.  wrinkle(n = noun.shape) crease, crinkle, furrow, line, seam - a slight depression in the smoothness of a surface; "his face has many lines"; "ironing gets rid of most wrinkles"
is a kind of depression, impression, imprint
is a part of cutis, skin, tegument
has particulars: crow's feet, crow's foot, laugh line, dermatoglyphic, frown line, life line, lifeline, line of life, heart line, line of heart, love line, mensal line, line of destiny, line of fate, line of saturn
Derived forms verb wrinkle4, verb wrinkle3, verb wrinkle2, verb wrinkle1

2.  wrinkle(n = noun.cognition) Array - a minor difficulty; "they finally have the wrinkles pretty well ironed out"
is a kind of
difficulty

3.  wrinkle(n = noun.cognition) Array - a clever method of doing something (especially something new and different); Array
is a kind of
method


Verb wrinkle has 4 senses

1.  wrinkle(v = verb.contact) purse - gather or contract into wrinkles or folds; pucker; "purse ones's lips"
is one way to contract
Derived form noun wrinkle1
Sample sentences: Something ----s; Somebody ----s something

2.  wrinkle(v = verb.contact) crease, crinkle, crisp, ruckle, scrunch, scrunch up - 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"
is one way to fold, fold up, turn up
Derived form noun wrinkle1
Sample sentences: They wrinkle the sheets

3.  wrinkle(v = verb.contact) crease, furrow - make wrinkled or creased; "furrow one's brow"
is one way to fold, fold up, turn up
Derived form noun wrinkle1
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something

4.  wrinkle(v = verb.change) crease, crinkle, crumple, rumple - become wrinkled or crumpled or creased; "This fabric won't wrinkle"
is one way to fold, fold up
Derived form noun wrinkle1
Sample sentences: The sheets didn't wrinkle; These fabrics wrinkle easily


[CIDE DICTIONARY]

wrinkle, n.

   A winkle. [1913 Webster]


wrinkle, n. [OE. wrinkil, AS. wrincle; akin to OD. wrinckel, and prob. to Dan. rynke, Sw. rynka, Icel. hrukka, OHG. runza, G. runzel, L. ruga. .].

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. Shak. [1913 Webster]
"Within I do not find wrinkles and used heart, but unspent youth." [1913 Webster]

2.  hence, any roughness; unevenness. [1913 Webster]
"Not the least wrinkle to deform the sky." [1913 Webster]

3.  A notion or fancy; a whim; as, to have a new wrinkle. [1913 Webster]


wrinkle, v. t.

1.  To contract into furrows and prominences; to make a wrinkle or wrinkles in; to corrugate; as, wrinkle the skin or the brow. Milton. [1913 Webster]
"Her wrinkled form in black and white arrayed." [1913 Webster]

2.  Hence, to make rough or uneven in any way. [1913 Webster]
"A keen north wind that, blowing dry,
Wrinkled the face of deluge, as decayed.
" [1913 Webster]
"Then danced we on the wrinkled sand." [1913 Webster]

To wrinkle at, to sneer at. [Obs.] Marston.

wrinkle, v. i.

   To shrink into furrows and ridges. [1913 Webster]


[OXFORD DICTIONARY]

wrinkle, n. & v.
--n.
1 a slight crease or depression in the skin such as is produced by age.
2 a similar mark in another flexible surface.
3 colloq. a useful tip or clever expedient.
--v.
1 tr. make wrinkles in.
2 intr. form wrinkles; become marked with wrinkles.

Etymology:
orig. repr. OE gewrinclod sinuous


[ROGET DICTIONARY]

Convolution

VB  be convoluted, wind, twine, turn and twist, twirl, wave, undulate, meander, inosculate, entwine, intwine, twist, coil, roll, wrinkle, curl, crisp, twill, frizzle, crimp, crape, indent, scollop, scallop, wring, intort, contort, wreathe.


Fold

N  fold, plicature, plait, pleat, ply, crease, tuck, gather, flexion, flexure, joint, elbow, double, doubling, duplicature, gather, wrinkle, rimple, crinkle, crankle, crumple, rumple, rivel, ruck, ruffle, dog's ear, corrugation, frounce, flounce, lapel, pucker, crow's feet, plication, folded, fluted, pleated.

VB  fold, double, plicate, plait, crease, wrinkle, crinkle, crankle, curl, cockle up, cocker, rimple, rumple, flute, frizzle, frounce, rivel, twill, corrugate, ruffle, crimple, crumple, pucker, turn down, double down, down under, tuck, ruck, hem, gather.