Thesaurus: wrinkle

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1. n. A winkle.
2. n. 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. n. hence, any roughness; unevenness.
4. n. A notion or fancy; a whim; as, to have a new wrinkle.
5. v. t. To contract into furrows and prominences; to make a wrinkle or wrinkles in; to corrugate; as, wrinkle the skin or the brow.
6. v. t. Hence, to make rough or uneven in any way.
7. v. i. To shrink into furrows and ridges.
8. n. a slight depression or fold in the smoothness of a surface
9. n. a minor difficulty
10. n. a clever method of doing something (especially something new and different)
11. v. gather or contract into wrinkles or folds; pucker
12. v. make wrinkles or creases on a smooth surface; make a pressed, folded or wrinkled line in; ‘crisp’ is archaic