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English Dictionary: wrinkled by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
wrinkled
adj
  1. marked by wrinkles; "tired travelers in wrinkled clothes"
    Synonym(s): wrinkled, wrinkly
    Antonym(s): unwrinkled, wrinkleless
  2. (of linens or clothes) not ironed; "a pile of unironed laundry"; "wore unironed jeans"
    Synonym(s): unironed, wrinkled
    Antonym(s): ironed
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Wrinkle \Wrin"kle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Wrinkled}; p. pr. & vb.
      n. {Wrinkling}.]
      1. To contract into furrows and prominences; to make a
            wrinkle or wrinkles in; to corrugate; as, wrinkle the skin
            or the brow. [bd]Sport that wrinkled Care derides.[b8]
            --Milton.
  
                     Her wrinkled form in black and white arrayed.
                                                                              --Pope.
  
      2. Hence, to make rough or uneven in any way.
  
                     A keen north wind that, blowing dry, Wrinkled the
                     face of deluge, as decayed.               --Milton.
  
                     Then danced we on the wrinkled sand.   --Bryant.
  
      {To wrinkle at}, to sneer at. [Obs.] --Marston.
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