transitive. To gather in folds or wrinkles, to wrinkle; to knit, purse (the brows or lips); occasionally to knit the brows of. Also with up. Obsolete.

To cause to contract or be reduced in size, volume, or extent; to cause to contract by moisture, heat, or cold; to cause (a limb, sinew, plant) to…

transitive. To cause (something, esp. the skin) to wrinkle, pucker, or shrivel. Also with up. Also intransitive. Now rare (in later use poetic and E…

transitive. To wrinkle.

To contract or draw (the skin, countenance, etc.) into creases or wrinkles; to pucker, crease. Also reflexive.

transitive. To furrow (the face, brow, etc.) deeply with wrinkles; to cause (furrows or wrinkles) to appear on the face. Now rare.

With up.

To make wrinkles in.

transitive. To pucker or contract (the lips, brow, etc.), as if by tightening the strings of a purse. Also with up, out, and other adverbs. Also in p…

transitive. To wrinkle (in passive in quots. 1615 and 1681). Also intransitive: to be wrinkled, to hang in folds.

figurative (with the surface cut or furrowed as object)

to wrinkle.

transitive. To mark (a surface) with lines or indentations; to furrow. Said of a scar, wound, etc.; also of care or the passions as marking the face.

To mark with a line or lines; to impress lines upon; to cover with lines. Also with off, out. to line out: spec. to delete, obliterate. to line th…

= wrinkle, v. 3b.

To form a granular surface on (the skin).