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Definition: To wrinkle at
Wrinkle
\Wrin"kle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Wrinkled; p. pr. & vb.
n.
Wrinkling.]
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1. To contract into furrows and prominences; to make a
wrinkle or wrinkles in; to corrugate; as, wrinkle the skin
or the brow.
“Sport that wrinkled Care derides.”
--Milton.
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Her wrinkled form in black and white arrayed.
--Pope.
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2. Hence, to make rough or uneven in any way.
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A keen north wind that, blowing dry,
Wrinkled the face of deluge, as decayed. --Milton.
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Then danced we on the wrinkled sand. --Bryant.
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To wrinkle at, to sneer at. [Obs.] --Marston.
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