unwrinkle
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Theory’s new pants promise to repel water and dirt, wick away perspiration, quickly unwrinkle, stretch for comfort and cool the wearer down.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 11, 2016
San Francisco's family-owned Levi Strauss & Co., the behemoth of blue jeans, has a new wrinkle-or, rather, an unwrinkle.
From Time Magazine Archive
The April rain-drops tinkle In cuckoo-cups of gold, And warm south winds unwrinkle The buds the peach-boughs hold.
From Child Songs of Cheer by Inglis, Antoinette
Even when he had sunk his mustaches in the dark surface of the mead, his brows did not unwrinkle.
From With Fire and Sword An Historical Novel of Poland and Russia. by Sienkiewicz, Henryk
Hence the Latin phrase, exporrigere frontem— to unwrinkle the brow—means, to be cheerful or merry.
From The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Darwin, Charles
His clean-shaven face is ruddy and, excepting a divot between his eyebrows, unwrinkled.
From New York Times ● Nov. 5, 2023
Stephanie, still fresh and unwrinkled in her red dress, black hair smooth, sunglasses pushed up on her head, chatted in the midst of all of us, the weight of the day lifting.
From Salon ● Oct. 16, 2021
When Dodie commented on his unwrinkled, youthful-looking hands, he held up a finger and said, “Black don’t crack.”
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 2, 2019
They’re unwrinkled young men who began this decade playing football together for that 326-year-old football coaching conservatory, William & Mary.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 10, 2019
So that everyone went to the tent and by paying one cent they saw a youthful Melquíades, recovered, unwrinkled, with a new and flashing set of teeth.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
When you pass out, you become cut off from your experience and the return feels like an unwrinkling of the senses.
From Salon ● Aug. 28, 2022
In his office, at home and on his travels, Mr. Bratton keeps with him a steamer for instant unwrinkling, Mr. Miller said.
From New York Times ● Aug. 5, 2016
Yes," he replied, without unwrinkling his old face, "I saw it in the papers.
From The Web of Life by Herrick, Robert
"I know," replied the girl, unwrinkling her forehead.
From Ambrotox and Limping Dick by Fleming, Oliver
Hedwig regarded her puzzled, till her brow unwrinkling at last, she exclaimed: "Upon my word, I believe you have fallen in love with master."
From The Son of Clemenceau by Dumas fils, Alexandre
