Definition of Wrinkle

Wrinkle

A winkle.

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.

hence, any roughness; unevenness.

A notion or fancy; a whim; as, to have a new wrinkle.

To contract into furrows and prominences; to make a wrinkle or wrinkles in; to corrugate; as, wrinkle the skin or the brow.

Hence, to make rough or uneven in any way.

To shrink into furrows and ridges.

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Wrinkle Quotations

No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed. I have known mothers who remake the bed after their children do it because there is wrinkle in the spread or the blanket is on crooked. This is sick.
Erma Bombeck

What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.
Lord Byron

I'm getting a wrinkle above my eyebrow because I just can't stop lifting it, and I love that you know.
Angelina Jolie

Years wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.
Douglas MacArthur

The latest wrinkle is on wrinkles. There is a widespread belief that women can't grow old in television news.
Jessica Savitch

He's so ugly. When you walked by him, your pants wrinkle. He made fly balls curve foul.
Mickey Rivers

If you get a wrinkle, I don't feel that's indicative of your losing ground. That's ridiculous.
Leighton Meester

Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.
Samuel Ullman

I've only got one wrinkle, and I'm sitting on it.
Jeanne Calment

My mother has rheumatoid arthritis. I don't want to lose the ability to jump up and walk across the room or move around with the energy I'm used to having. That's far more important to me than a wrinkle or two.
Cheryl Ladd

I am lucky to have good Polish skin that doesn't wrinkle so I might be around for a few years yet.
Ruby Wax

Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.
Samuel Ullman

There's always the new wrinkle. One must keep one's eyes always open.
George Peppard

Hollywood is a place where the stars twinkle until they wrinkle.
Victor Mature

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Wrinkle Translations

wrinkle in Dutch is rimpelen, fronsen
wrinkle in French is ride, combine, fronce, pronostic
wrinkle in German is tip, trick, Runzel, kniff
wrinkle in Italian is trucco, grinza, suggerimento, pizzicotto
wrinkle in Portuguese is enrugamento
wrinkle in Spanish is dobladura, zangamanga, truco, arruga
wrinkle in Swedish is skrynkla

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