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# wrinkle

«wrinkle» in Mova's school dictionary: **a small line or fold in skin, cloth or paper** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a wrinkle, wrinkles); verb (wrinkle, wrinkles, wrinkled, wrinkling)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A wrinkle is a small line or fold in skin, cloth or paper. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wrinkle/#m1)

2) To wrinkle is to make or get such lines, as when you wrinkle your nose or a shirt gets creased. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wrinkle/#m2)

3) Informally, a wrinkle is a small problem or a clever new idea. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wrinkle/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In science lessons, skin gets wrinkles with age; fingers wrinkle in water. In everyday life, ironing removes wrinkles from clothes. In stories, someone wrinkles their nose at a bad smell to show dislike. Phrases: «wrinkle your nose», «iron out the wrinkles», «wrinkled skin».

### examples

- Grandma has wrinkles around her eyes when she smiles. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wrinkle/#x1)
- My fingers wrinkle after a long bath. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wrinkle/#x2)
- He wrinkled his nose at the smell of the bin. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wrinkle/#x3)
- Iron the shirt to get rid of the wrinkles. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wrinkle/#x4)
- The old map was full of wrinkles and folds. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wrinkle/#x5)
- We still need to iron out a few wrinkles in our plan. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wrinkle/#x6)
- But every hundred years there came a wrinkle on my face. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wrinkle/#x7)

### note

Countable noun; regular verb: wrinkled, wrinkling (drop the e). The w is silent. Adjective «wrinkly». Wrinkles in skin are normal with age, not a sign of illness.

### In the corpora

- [There were no wrinkles in it anywhere."](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/76-justso-rhinoceros-skin/9/)
- [People are sensitive about how they look: wrinkles, baldness, being short or not pretty, or getting forgetful with age.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/9-age-looks-and-size/0/)
- [Kind words soften the truth: wrinkles become "laughter lines" and a balding man is "thinning on top".](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/9-age-looks-and-size/1/)
- ["Laughter lines" is a kind name for wrinkles around the eyes and mouth.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/9-age-looks-and-size/10/)
- [No cream removes all wrinkles in three days; a real breakthrough would be big news, not a pop-up advert.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/179-its-natural-so-its-healthy-and-the-miracle-cure/12/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «wrinkle» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wrinkle/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.