Synonyms for wrinkle
ˈrɪŋ kəlwrin·kle

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1. wrinkle, furrow, crease, crinkle, seam, linenoun

   a slight depression in the smoothness of a surface

   "his face has many lines"; "ironing gets rid of most wrinkles"

   Synonyms:
   kris, course, billet, short letter, assembly line, crease, melodic phrase, argumentation, railway line, argument, pedigree, product line, plication, parentage, melodic line, rail line, business line, contrast, communication channel, job, phone line, line of products, cable, bend, occupation, credit line, crimp, note, personal line of credit, flexure, line of reasoning, pipeline, descent, creese, demarcation, stemma, channel, tune, bank line, agate line, line of work, dividing line, stock, business, line of credit, furrow, lineage, bed, line of merchandise, origin, personal credit line, logical argument, line, fold, line of descent, melody, telephone circuit, line of business, air, bloodline, transmission line, strain, telephone line, seam, crinkle, production line, subscriber line, ancestry, blood, blood line

2. wrinklenoun

   a minor difficulty

   "they finally have the wrinkles pretty well ironed out"

   Synonyms:
   seam, crease, crinkle, furrow, line

3. wrinkleverb

   a clever method of doing something (especially something new and different)

   Synonyms:
   seam, crease, crinkle, furrow, line

4. purse, wrinkleverb

   gather or contract into wrinkles or folds; pucker

   "purse ones's lips"

   Synonyms:
   ruckle, crinkle, scrunch up, crumple, purse, crease, crisp, scrunch, rumple, furrow

5. wrinkle, ruckle, crease, crinkle, scrunch, scrunch up, crispverb

   make wrinkles or creases on a smooth surface; make a pressed, folded or wrinkled line in

   "The dress got wrinkled"; "crease the paper like this to make a crane"

   Synonyms:
   toast, crump, crease, crispen, ruckle, graze, rumple, crisp, hunker down, thud, crinkle, purse, hunker, rake, furrow, scrunch, crouch, scrunch up, crumple, squat

6. furrow, wrinkle, creaseverb

   make wrinkled or creased

   "furrow one's brow"

   Synonyms:
   rut, crease, ruckle, graze, groove, chamfer, crisp, chase, crinkle, purse, rake, furrow, scrunch, scrunch up, crumple, rumple

7. rumple, crumple, wrinkle, crease, crinkleverb

   become wrinkled or crumpled or creased

   "This fabric won't wrinkle"

   Synonyms:
   ruffle up, furrow, ruckle, crease, graze, rumple, pucker, break down, collapse, purse, crumble, buckle, rake, knit, tumble, ruffle, mess up, crinkle, crisp, scrunch up, cockle, crumple, scrunch

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1. wrinklenoun

   Synonyms:
   furrow, crease, fold, plait, gather, pucker, rumple, corrugation, rimple

2. wrinklenoun

   Synonyms:
   [Colloquial.] notion, whim, fancy, whimsey, caprice, crotchet, vagary, freak, quirk, maggot

3. wrinkleverb

   Synonyms:
   corrugato, crease, rumple, cockle, pucker, crumple

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1. wrinklenoun

   Synonyms:
   corrugation, pucker, crease, furrow, rumple, crinkle, ruck, notion, fancy, whim, caprice, vagary, freak, whimsey

2. wrinklenoun

   Synonyms:
   crow\'s feet

3. wrinkleverb

   Synonyms:
   rumple, pucker, corrugate, crease, cockle, ruck, crumple

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1. List of paraphrases for "wrinkle":

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1. Samuel Ullman:

   Years wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.

2. Reese Witherspoon:

   I see [ fear ] as this little creature that lives in my life all the time, and I can either pay it attention and not get anything done or I can march ahead and ignore it, sometimes I just have to jump two feet into a cold pool and go, ‘ OK, I believe in Reese Witherspoon enough, I know I work hard. I know I can always bet on Reese Witherspoon. Over the past few months, the Wrinkle In Time actress has been vunerable after revealing to the world that she was sexually assaulted by a director while on the set of the film when she was 16 years old.

3. Made:

   Ricky See thats what I'm talking about bobby, first class. You've got to get used to this my man, you deserve it. Hey ladies, you missed out on staying at the SoHo Grand on this trip you know what I mean. Listen, I'd offer you a ride in my limo, but I got to stretch my shit out. I'm a tall drink of water, don't want to wrinkle anything.

4. Kevin Chun:

   7 WRINKLE-FIGHTING FOODS PROBABLY ALREADY IN YOUR KITCHEN Chef Kevin Chun, Honeybrains ’ executive chef and chief culinary officer, created a menu that garnishes those five food groups with herbs, spices, fermented foods and natural sweeteners from nature. Our main spice blend incorporates a couple of different paprikas, garlic, cumin, coriander seeds, a lot of spices that you might find in Mediterranean flavors.

5. Quentin Crisp:

   Father Time is not always a hard parent, and, though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have used him well making them old men and women inexorably enough, but leaving their hearts and spirits young and in full vigour. With such people the grey head is but the impression of the old fellow's hand in giving them his blessing, and every wrinkle but a notch in the quiet calendar of a well-spent life.