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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fold, wrinkle |
| Synonyms: | bend, bulge, cockle, corrugation, furrow, groove, line, overlap, pleat, plica, pucker, ridge, rimple, rivel, ruck, rugosity, tuck |
| Main Entry: | crimp |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | fold or curl |
| Synonyms: | coil, crease, crimple, crinkle, crisp, crumple, flow, frizz, pleat, rimple, ruck, screw, scrunch, set, swirl, undulate, wave, wrinkle |
| Antonyms: | straighten |
| Main Entry: | crinkle |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | crumple, ruffle |
| Synonyms: | cockle, coil, crackle, crease, crimp, crimple, curl, fold, hiss, pucker, ruck, rumple, rustle, scallop, screw, scrunch, seam, swish, twist, whisper, wind, wreathe, wrinkle |
| Antonyms: | straighten |
| Main Entry: | crumple |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make or become wrinkled |
| Synonyms: | break down, buckle, cave in, collapse, crease, crimp, crimple, crinkle, crush, fall, fold, give way, go to pieces, pucker, rimple, ruck, rumple, screw, scrunch, shrivel, wad, wrinkle |
| Antonyms: | straighten |
| Main Entry: | crush |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | compress, smash |
| Synonyms: | beat, bray, break, bruise, buck, comminute, contriturate, contuse, crease, crowd, crumble, crunch, embrace, enfold, express, hug, jam, kablooey, mash, pound, powder, press, pulverize, push, romp, rumple, squash, squeeze, squish, total*, trample, tread, triturate, wrinkle |
| Antonyms: | let go, release, uncompress, unwrinkle |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fold |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | double thickness |
| Synonyms: | bend, circumvolution, cockle, convolution, corrugation, crease, crimp, crinkle, dog's ear, flection, flexure, furrow, gather, gathering, groove, knife-edge, lap, lapel, layer, loop, overlap, plait, pleat, plica, plication, plicature, ply, pucker, ridge, rimple, rivel, ruche, ruck, ruffle, rumple, shirring, smocking, tuck, turn, wrinkle |
| Main Entry: | furrow |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ditch |
| Synonyms: | channel, corrugation, crease, crinkle, crow's-foot, dike, fluting, fold, groove, gutter, hollow, line, plica, rabbet, ridge, rimple, rivel, ruck, rut, seam, trench, wrinkle |
| Main Entry: | groove |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | channel, indentation |
| Synonyms: | canal, corrugation, crease, crimp, cut, cutting, depression, ditch, flute, fluting, furrow, gouge, gutter, hollow, incision, notch, pucker, rabbet, rut, scallop, score, scratch, slit, trench, valley |
| Main Entry: | line |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | mark, stroke; border |
| Synonyms: | band, bar, borderline, boundary, channel, configuration, contour, crease, dash, delineation, demarcation, edge, figuration, figure, frontier, furrow, groove, limit, lineament, lineation, outline, profile, rule, score, scratch, silhouette, streak, stripe, tracing, underline, wrinkle |
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