Definitions for wrinkle

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wrinkle wrin·kle

Spelling: [ring-kuh l]

IPA: /ˈrɪŋ kəl/

Wrinkle is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 130 anagrams from letters in wrinkle (eiklnrw).

Definitions for wrinkle

noun

1. a small furrow or crease in the skin, especially of the face, as from aging or frowning.
2. a temporary slight ridge or furrow on a surface, due to contraction, folding, crushing, or the like.
3. an ingenious trick or device; a clever innovation:

verb (used with object)

1. to form wrinkles in; corrugate; crease:

verb (used without object)

1. to become wrinkled.

Origin of wrinkle

1375-1425; late Middle English (noun), back formation from wrinkled, Old English gewrinclod, past participle of gewrinclian to wind round; perhaps akin to wrick,

Examples for wrinkle

But there was a wrinkle, meant to distinguish between people at different levels of the income scale.

The implants may stay in place but the skin around it will wrinkle and sag as the loss of subcutaneous fat takes place.

The third might have been in a wrinkle of the bag, without your feeling it!

They wrinkle up their upper lips to leave their fangs exposed.

And being perhaps the most famous transsexual in America adds a wrinkle (or an asterisk) to his male experience.

This could signify a lot of things: a renewed drive by labor, or some wrinkle in the tax code that I'm not aware of.

It seemed as if that kiss smoothed every wrinkle of worry from the man's brow.

It had become a grimace that creased every wrinkle into prominence.

He said if they was any longer they'd wrinkle under the arms.

And this "no budget, no pay" wrinkle is bound to be popular.