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.

transitive. To wrinkle, crumple.

To wrinkle, rumple, crinkle. transitive.

transitive. figurative.

transitive. To make twisting, winding, or crumpled; to crease, wrinkle; (also) to crimp (the hair). Also with up.

transitive. To cause (something) to shrink or draw together; to wrinkle; to shrivel (something) up; to twist, curl; to ruffle. Also with up.

intransitive and transitive. To form into small folds or undulations; to wrinkle; esp. (of water) to ripple.

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 form or cause corrugations, wrinkles, or folds in or on (a surface, etc.); to corrugate. Occasionally in figurative context. Also with…

transitive. To make a crease or creases in or on the surface of; to wrinkle; to fold in a crease.

transitive. To cause to be contracted or shrunk into wrinkles. Often with up.

to crease into frumples or clumsy folds.

transitive. To curl, frizz, ruffle, rumple.

transitive. (See quots. and cf. jag, v.1 2.)

transitive. To draw together or contract into wrinkles, bulges, or folds; to contract (the skin, lips, etc.) into wrinkles or creases; to gather…

To make undulations on (a surface); to furrow, wrinkle. Obsolete.

transitive. To crease or wrinkle (fabric, clothing, etc.); to cause to form untidy folds or ridges. Frequently with up.

intransitive and transitive. To wrinkle, rumple; (in later use also, of fabric, clothing, etc.) to ruck up.

transitive. To bend, twist; to form into furrows or wrinkles; to crinkle. Also intransitive with up.

To gather up in folds or wrinkles. rare.

To wrinkle the smooth surface of; to corrugate, to crinkle.

transitive. To cause to form folds or ridges; to crease, wrinkle. Also: to gather (fabric) into small folds or pleats; to ruche. Cf. ruck, v.4 1a 2.

transitive. To cause (clothing, fabric, etc.) to gather in untidy folds or wrinkles; to rumple, pucker. Also intransitive: to become rumpled. Also…