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WRINKLED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(of linens or clothes) not ironed
Example:
wore unironed jeans
Synonyms:
unironed; wrinkled
Classified under:
Similar:
drip-dry; permanent-press (used of fabrics that do not require ironing)
roughdried ((of laundry) dried but not ironed)
unpressed ((of clothing) not smoothed with heat)
Also:
rough; unsmooth (having or caused by an irregular surface)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Marked by wrinkles
Example:
tired travelers in wrinkled clothes
Synonyms:
wrinkled; wrinkly
Classified under:
Similar:
unsmoothed (not having been made smooth by having hands run over the surface)
Also:
furrowed; rugged (having long narrow shallow depressions (as grooves or wrinkles) in the surface)
Antonym:
unwrinkled (not wrinkled or creased)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb wrinkle
Context examples:
The Bloodhound is a powerful, massive hound with a long muzzle, drooping ears, and loose, wrinkled skin.
(Bloodhound, NCI Thesaurus)
For they saw, standing in just the spot the screen had hidden, a little old man, with a bald head and a wrinkled face, who seemed to be as much surprised as they were.
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
Jo thought intently for a minute with her eyes fixed on the picture, then she smoothed out her wrinkled forehead and said, with a decided nod at the face opposite, No thank you, sir, you're very charming, but you've no more stability than a weathercock.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
His muscles had wasted away to knotty strings, and the flesh pads had disappeared, so that each rib and every bone in his frame were outlined cleanly through the loose hide that was wrinkled in folds of emptiness.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
I propped my eyelids open with my two forefingers, and looked perseveringly at her as she sat at work; at the little bit of wax-candle she kept for her thread—how old it looked, being so wrinkled in all directions!—at the little house with a thatched roof, where the yard-measure lived; at her work-box with a sliding lid, with a view of St. Paul's Cathedral (with a pink dome) painted on the top; at the brass thimble on her finger; at herself, whom I thought lovely.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
A fiendish rage animated him as he said this; his face was wrinkled into contortions too horrible for human eyes to behold; but presently he calmed himself and proceeded—
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
A frayed top-hat and a faded brown overcoat with a wrinkled velvet collar lay upon a chair beside him.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I could see he was not at ease, so I took his poor old wrinkled hand in mine and asked him to speak fully; so he said, leaving his hand in mine:—I'm afraid, my deary, that I must have shocked you by all the wicked things I've been sayin' about the dead, and such like, for weeks past; but I didn't mean them, and I want ye to remember that when I'm gone.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
With nose serrulated by continuous spasms, hair bristling in recurrent waves, tongue whipping out like a red snake and whipping back again, ears flattened down, eyes gleaming hatred, lips wrinkled back, and fangs exposed and dripping, he could compel a pause on the part of almost any assailant.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
And was so touched and pleased by that confiding little kiss that all his crustiness vanished, and he just set her on his knee, and laid his wrinkled cheek against her rosy one, feeling as if he had got his own little granddaughter back again.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
