Wrinkle

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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"
Vocabulary classified under Environmental science
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