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ตัวอย่างประโยคจาก Tanaka JP-EN Corpus
wrinkleHis slacks are all wrinkled.
wrinkleI ironed out the wrinkles in my pants.
wrinkleShe starts to get a few wrinkles around her eyes.
wrinkleShe wrinkled her brows.

WordNet (3.0)
wrinkle(n) a slight depression in the smoothness of a surface, Syn. furrow, seam, line, crinkle, crease, Example: his face has many lines; ironing gets rid of most wrinkles
wrinkle(n) a minor difficulty, Example: they finally have the wrinkles pretty well ironed out
wrinkle(n) a clever method of doing something (especially something new and different)
wrinkle(v) make wrinkles or creases on a smooth surface; make a pressed, folded or wrinkled line in, Syn. scrunch, ruckle, crinkle, crease, crisp, scrunch up, Example: The dress got wrinkled; crease the paper like this to make a crane

The Collaborative International Dictionary of English (GCIDE) v.0.53
Wrinkle

n. A winkle. [ Local, U. S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Wrinkle

n. [ OE. wrinkil, AS. wrincle; akin to OD. wrinckel, and prob. to Dan. rynke, Sw. rynka, Icel. hrukka, OHG. runza, G. runzel, L. ruga. &unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_;. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. 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. “The wrinkles in my brows.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Within I do not find wrinkles and used heart, but unspent youth. Emerson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. hence, any roughness; unevenness. [ 1913 Webster ]

Not the least wrinkle to deform the sky. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. [ Perhaps a different word, and a dim. AS. wrenc a twisting, deceit. Cf. Wrench, n. ] A notion or fancy; a whim; as, to have a new wrinkle. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Wrinkle

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Wrinkled p. pr. & vb. n. Wrinkling ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. To contract into furrows and prominences; to make a wrinkle or wrinkles in; to corrugate; as, wrinkle the skin or the brow. “Sport that wrinkled Care derides.” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Her wrinkled form in black and white arrayed. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Hence, to make rough or uneven in any way. [ 1913 Webster ]

A keen north wind that, blowing dry,
Wrinkled the face of deluge, as decayed. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Then danced we on the wrinkled sand. Bryant. [ 1913 Webster ]


To wrinkle at, to sneer at. [ Obs. ] Marston.
[ 1913 Webster ]

Wrinkle

v. i. To shrink into furrows and ridges. [ 1913 Webster ]

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