wrinkle

1. A slight depression or fold in the smoothness of a surface (synset 113928798)
   "his face has many lines"; "ironing gets rid of most wrinkles"
   is a type of: depression, impression, imprint - a concavity in a surface produced by pressing
   subtypes:

   • crow's feet, crow's foot, laugh line - a wrinkle in the skin at the outer corner of your eyes
   • dermatoglyphic - the lines that form patterns on the skin (especially on the fingertips and the palms of the hands and the soles of the feet)
   • frown line - a facial wrinkle associated with frowning
   • life line, lifeline, line of life - a crease on the palm; its length is said by palmists to indicate how long you will live
   • heart line, line of heart, love line, mensal line - a crease on the palm; palmists say it indicates your emotional nature
   • line of destiny, line of fate, line of saturn - a crease on the palm; palmists say it indicates how successful you will be
   is a part of: cutis, skin, tegument - a natural protective body covering and site of the sense of touch
   same as: crease, crinkle, furrow, line, seam
2. A minor difficulty (synset 106261554)
   "they finally have the wrinkles pretty well ironed out"
   is a type of: difficulty - a factor causing trouble in achieving a positive result or tending to produce a negative result
3. A clever method of doing something (especially something new and different) (synset 106261425)
   is a type of: method - a way of doing something, especially a systematic way; implies an orderly logical arrangement (usually in steps)

1. Gather or contract into wrinkles or folds;
   Pucker (synset 201281908)
   "purse ones's lips"
   is a type of: contract - make smaller
   same as: purse
2. Make wrinkles or creases on a smooth surface;
   Make a pressed, folded or wrinkled line in;
   `crisp' is archaic (synset 201280991)
   "The dress got wrinkled"; "crease the paper like this to make a crane"
   domain usage: archaicism, archaism - the use of an archaic expression
   is a type of: fold, fold up, turn up - bend or lay so that one part covers the other
   subtypes:

   • cockle, crumple, knit, pucker, rumple - to gather something into small wrinkles or folds
   • pucker, ruck, ruck up - become wrinkled or drawn together
   same as: crease, crinkle, crisp, ruckle, scrunch, scrunch up
3. Make wrinkled or creased (synset 201280348)
   "furrow one's brow"
   is a type of: fold, fold up, turn up - bend or lay so that one part covers the other
   same as: crease, furrow
4. Become wrinkled or crumpled or creased (synset 200565934)
   "This fabric won't wrinkle"
   is a type of: fold, fold up - become folded or folded up
   same as: crease, crinkle, crumple, rumple

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