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Từ điển Oxford Learners Wordfinder Dictionary
wrinkle
1. a slight depression in the smoothness of a surface (Freq. 4)
- his face has many lines
- ironing gets rid of most wrinkles
• Syn:
furrow, crease, crinkle, seam, line
• Derivationally related forms:
line (for: line), crinkly (for: crinkle), crinkle (for: crinkle), crease (for: crease), furrow (for: furrow)
• Hypernyms:
depression, impression, imprint
• Hyponyms:
crow's foot, crow's feet, laugh line, dermatoglyphic, frown line,
line of life, life line, lifeline, line of heart, heart line, love line,
mensal line, line of fate, line of destiny, line of Saturn
• Part Holonyms:
skin, tegument, cutis
2. a minor difficulty
- they finally have the wrinkles pretty well ironed out
• Hypernyms:
difficulty
3. a clever method of doing something (especially something new and different)
• Hypernyms:
method
1. gather or contract into wrinkles or folds;
pucker (Freq. 2)
- purse ones's lips
• Syn:
purse
• Hypernyms:
contract
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s
- Somebody ----s something
2. make wrinkles or creases on a smooth surface;
make a pressed, folded or wrinkled line in (Freq. 1)
- The dress got wrinkled
- crease the paper like this to make a crane
• Syn:
ruckle, crease, crinkle, scrunch, scrunch up, crisp
• Derivationally related forms:
crinkle (for: crinkle), crease (for: crease)
• Hypernyms:
fold, fold up, turn up
• Hyponyms:
pucker, rumple, cockle, crumple, knit,
ruck, ruck up
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s
- Somebody ----s something
- Something ----s something
- They wrinkle the sheets
3. make wrinkled or creased
- furrow one's brow
• Syn:
furrow, crease
• Derivationally related forms:
crease (for: crease), furrow (for: furrow)
• Hypernyms:
fold, fold up, turn up
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Something ----s something
4. become wrinkled or crumpled or creased
- This fabric won't wrinkle
• Syn:
rumple, crumple, crease, crinkle
• Derivationally related forms:
crinkle (for: crinkle), crease (for: crease)
• Hypernyms:
fold, fold up
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s
- The sheets didn't wrinkle
- These fabrics wrinkle easily
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