Definitions for corrugate

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corrugate cor·ru·gate

Spelling: [verb kawr-uh-geyt, kor-; Corrugate is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 407 anagrams from letters in corrugate (acegorrtu).

Definitions for corrugate

adjective

1. corrugated; wrinkled; furrowed.

verb (used with object)

1. to draw or bend into folds or alternate furrows and ridges.
2. to wrinkle, as the skin or face.
3. Western U.S. to make irrigation ditches in (a field).

verb (used without object)

1. to become corrugated; undergo corrugation.

Origin of corrugate

1375-1425; late Middle English Latin corrūgātus past participle of corrūgāre, equivalent to cor- cor- + rūg(āre) to wrinkle + -ātus Examples for corrugate

Flutes, 72 four inches deep, corrugate the beast's underpart from tail to neck.

Yet we had watched his smooth brow furrow and corrugate as under some carking care or devouring sorrow.

However, "broad-browed Verulam," let not that brow's breadth cloud or corrugate in vexation at my persiflage.