1. Noun
A winkle.
2. Noun
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.
3. Noun
hence, any roughness; unevenness.
4. Noun
A notion or fancy; a whim; as, to have a new wrinkle.
5. Verb
To contract into furrows and prominences; to make a wrinkle or wrinkles in; to corrugate; as, wrinkle the skin or the brow.
6. Verb
Hence, to make rough or uneven in any way.
7. Verb
To shrink into furrows and ridges.
8. Noun
a minor difficulty; "they finally have the wrinkles pretty well ironed out"
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