| 单词 | wrinkle |
| 释义 | wrinkle (once / 468 pages) nv If you work to iron a stubborn wrinkle out of your shirt, you're trying to smooth out a crease. A wrinkle is a dent or line where that smoothness is interrupted. You might fret about a wrinkle in your skirt or a new wrinkle on your face. Another kind of wrinkle is more figurative: a small complication or problem that arises suddenly. You could describe a torrential rain storm as a wrinkle in your plan to film a sunny scene in your movie, for example. The Old English root is gewrinclod, "wrinkled, crooked, or winding," and it comes from the verb wrinclian, "to wind." WORD FAMILYwrinkle: wrinkled, wrinkleless, wrinkles, wrinkling+/wrinkled: unwrinkled, wrinkleder USAGE EXAMPLESBut in the meantime, Trump’s election added another wrinkle to the company’s ownership situation. Los Angeles Times(Jan 02, 2017) A wrinkled easy chair in the corner stayed empty. Washington Times(Dec 30, 2016) Those few years may be the only wrinkle in his otherwise smooth ascent. Washington Post(Dec 28, 2016) 1n a slight depression in the smoothness of a surface ironing gets rid of most wrinkles Syn|Hypo|Hyper crease, crinkle, furrow, line, seam crow's feet, crow's foot, laugh line a wrinkle in the skin at the outer corner of your eyes dermatoglyphicthe lines that form patterns on the skin (especially on the fingertips and the palms of the hands and the soles of the feet) frown linea facial wrinkle associated with frowning life line, lifeline, line of lifea crease on the palm; its length is said by palmists to indicate how long you will live heart line, line of heart, love line, mensal linea crease on the palm; palmists say it indicates your emotional nature line of Saturn, line of destiny, line of fatea crease on the palm; palmists say it indicates how successful you will be depression, impression, imprint a concavity in a surface produced by pressing 2n a minor difficulty they finally have the wrinkles pretty well ironed out Hyper difficulty a factor causing trouble in achieving a positive result or tending to produce a negative result 3n a clever method of doing something (especially something new and different) Hyper method a way of doing something, especially a systematic way; implies an orderly logical arrangement (usually in steps) 4v gather or contract into wrinkles or folds; pucker Syn|Hyper purse contract make smaller 5v make wrinkles or creases on a smooth surface; make a pressed, folded or wrinkled line in The dress got wrinkled Syn|Hypo|Hyper crease, crinkle, crisp, ruckle, scrunch, scrunch up cockle, crumple, knit, pucker, rumple to gather something into small wrinkles or folds pucker, ruck, ruck upbecome wrinkled or drawn together fold, fold up, turn up bend or lay so that one part covers the other 6v become wrinkled or crumpled or creased This fabric won't wrinkle Syn|Hyper crease, crinkle, crumple, rumple fold, fold up become folded or folded up 7v make wrinkled or creased Syn|Hyper crease, furrow fold, fold up, turn up bend or lay so that one part covers the other |
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