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RUCKLE
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Make wrinkles or creases on a smooth surface; make a pressed, folded or wrinkled line in; 'crisp' is archaic
Example:
crease the paper like this to make a crane
Synonyms:
crease; crinkle; crisp; ruckle; scrunch; scrunch up; wrinkle
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "ruckle" is one way to...):
fold; fold up; turn up (bend or lay so that one part covers the other)
Domain usage:
archaicism; archaism (the use of an archaic expression)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "ruckle"):
cockle; crumple; knit; pucker; rumple (to gather something into small wrinkles or folds)
pucker; ruck; ruck up (become wrinkled or drawn together)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Sense 2
Meaning:
Make a hoarse, rattling sound
Classified under:
Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling
Hypernyms (to "ruckle" is one way to...):
rattle (make short successive sounds)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
