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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Wrinkle \Wrin"kle\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Wrinkled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Wrinkling}.]
1. To contract into furrows and prominences; to make a wrinkle or wrinkles in; to corrugate; as, wrinkle the skin or the brow. ''Sport that wrinkled Care derides.'' --Milton.
Her wrinkled form in black and white arrayed. --Pope.
2. Hence, to make rough or uneven in any way.
A keen north wind that, blowing dry, Wrinkled the face of deluge, as decayed. --Milton.
Then danced we on the wrinkled sand. --Bryant.
{To wrinkle at}, to sneer at. [Obs.] --Marston.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Wrinkle \Wrin"kle\, noun A winkle. [Local, U. S.]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Wrinkle \Wrin"kle\, noun [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. ''The wrinkles in my brows.'' --Shak.
Within I do not find wrinkles and used heart, but unspent youth. --Emerson.
2. hence, any roughness; unevenness.
Not the least wrinkle to deform the sky. --Dryden.
3. [Perhaps a different word, and a dim. AS. wrenc a twisting, deceit. Cf. {Wrench}, noun] A notion or fancy; a whim; as, to have a new wrinkle. [Colloq.]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Wrinkle \Wrin"kle\, verb (used without an object) To shrink into furrows and ridges.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
wrinkle
noun
1: a slight depression in the smoothness of a surface; "his face has many lines"; "ironing gets rid of most wrinkles" [syn: {furrow}, {crease}, {crinkle}, {seam}, {line}]
2: a minor difficulty; "they finally have the wrinkles pretty well ironed out"
3: a clever method of doing something (especially something new and different)
verb
1: gather or contract into wrinkles or folds; pucker; "purse ones's lips" [syn: {purse}]
2: make wrinkles or creases into a smooth surface; "The dress got wrinkled" [syn: {ruckle}, {crease}, {crinkle}, {scrunch}, {scrunch up}, {crisp}]
3: make wrinkled or creased; "furrow one's brow" [syn: {furrow}, {crease}]
4: become wrinkled or crumpled or creased; "This fabric won't wrinkle" [syn: {rumple}, {crumple}, {crease}, {crinkle}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
146 Moby Thesaurus words for "wrinkle": abbreviate, age, bezel, bonus, bristle, canal, canalize, carve, chamfer, channel, chase, cheat the undertaker, chink, chisel, circumscribe, coarct, cocker, cockle, compact, compress, concentrate, condense, consolidate, constrict, constringe, contract, corrugate, corrugation, crack, cramp, crankle, cranny, craze, crease, crimp, crimple, crinkle, crumple, curtail, cut, dado, decline, decoration, decrease, dike, ditch, dodder, draw, draw in, draw together, engrave, engraving, extra, extra added attraction, extra dash, fad, faddiness, faddishness, faddism, faddist, fade, fail, filigree, filling, fillip, flourish, flute, fluting, fold, frill, furrow, gash, get along, get on, goffer, gouge, groove, grow old, gully, incise, incision, knit, knot, lagniappe, microgroove, narrow, novelty, ornament, padding, pleat, plica, plow, premium, pucker, pucker up, purse, rabbet, rage, reduce, ridge, rifle, rifling, rimple, ripple, rivel, ruck, ruckle, ruffle, rumple, rut, score, scratch, screw, scrunch, set on edge, shake, shirr, shorten, shrivel, sink, slit, solidify, something extra, strangle, strangulate, streak, stria, striate, striation, stuffing, sulcation, sulcus, superaddition, totter, trench, trimming, trough, turn gray, turn white, twist, wane, waste away, well-worn groove, wimple, wither, wizen
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