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creasecrease2 verb [intransitive, transitive] VERB TABLEcrease |
Present | I, you, we, they | crease | | he, she, it | creases | Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | creased | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have creased | | he, she, it | has creased | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had creased | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will crease | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have creased |
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Present | I | am creasing | | he, she, it | is creasing | | you, we, they | are creasing | Past | I, he, she, it | was creasing | | you, we, they | were creasing | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been creasing | | he, she, it | has been creasing | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been creasing | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be creasing | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been creasing |
- Linen is a beautiful fabric but it creases very easily and needs to be pressed regularly.
- These pants crease very easily.
- These trousers will crease if you don't hang them up properly.
- A shadow of a smile creased her mouth; but it was circumstantial, not genuine.
- My glasses are creased by running water and I can no longer see past the end of the boat.
- Obviously, he liked to work amidst clutter, and it wouldn't bother him if a few pages were creased.
- Shorr has splattered the work with white paint, and violently creased up the photo underneath.
- The way her blouse creased from the waist down, having been tucked in all day.
- The younger policeman noticed that his pyjamas were hardly creased.
when something gets folds in it► crease if clothes crease , they get unwanted folds or lines in them when you leave them somewhere, or when you wear them: · These trousers will crease if you don't hang them up properly.· Linen is a beautiful fabric but it creases very easily and needs to be pressed regularly. ► creased clothes that are creased have unwanted folds or lines in them because you have left them somewhere or been wearing them: · His shirt was creased at the back where he had been lying down on it.· Professor Haines finally showed up wearing a badly creased suit with stains on the front.get creased: · Don't put your shirts in there - they'll get creased. ► crumpled if papers or clothes are crumpled , they have a lot of unwanted lines and folds, and look old and untidy: · She reached into her pocket and handed the clerk a crumpled ten-dollar bill.· I spent the night under a bridge, using a crumpled blanket as a bed. ► your brow furrows/creases/wrinkles (=lines appear on your brow because you are thinking or are worried) His brow furrowed. ‘I don’t understand,’ he said. ADVERB► up· Jo could imitate anybody and always made him crease up, even without the dope.· Shorr has splattered the work with white paint, and violently creased up the photo underneath. NOUN► brow· She sensed through the darkness, brow creased. ► frown· She stirred, a slight frown creasing her forehead, but her face relaxed again, and became peaceful. to become marked with a line or lines, or to make a line appear on cloth, paper etc by folding or crushing it → crumple: Don’t sit on my newspaper. You’ll crease it! These trousers crease really easily. A worried frown creased her forehead.—creased adjective: This shirt is too creased to wear.crease (somebody) up phrasal verb British English spoken to laugh a lot, or to make someone laugh a lot SYN crack up: She really creases me up! |