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| Main Entry: | crinkle |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | crumple, ruffle |
| Synonyms: | cockle, coil, crackle, crease, crimp, curl, fold, hiss, pucker, rumple, rustle, screw, scrunch, seam, swish, twist, whisper, wind, wrinkle, crimple, ruck, scallop, wreathe |
| Antonyms: | straighten |
| Main Entry: | crease |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | fold, rumple |
| Synonyms: | bend, cockle, crimp, crinkle, crumple, plait, pleat, pucker, purse, ridge, screw up*, wrinkle, corrugate, dog-ear, double up, ruck up |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | crimp |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | fold or curl |
| Synonyms: | coil, crease, crinkle, crisp, crumple, flow, pleat, screw, scrunch, set, swirl, undulate, wave, wrinkle, crimple, frizz, rimple, ruck |
| Antonyms: | straighten |
| Main Entry: | crumple |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make or become wrinkled |
| Synonyms: | buckle, collapse, crease, crimp, crinkle, crush, fall, fold, go to pieces, pucker, rumple, screw, scrunch, shrivel, wad, wrinkle, break down, cave in, crimple, give way, rimple, ruck |
| Antonyms: | straighten |
| Main Entry: | curl |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | bend, loop |
| Synonyms: | buckle, coil, contort, convolute, crimp, crinkle, crisp, crook, curve, entwine, fold, indent, kink, lap, meander, ringlet, ripple, roll, snake, spiral, swirl, turn, twine, twirl, twist, undulate, wave, wind, writhe, zigzag, corkscrew, form into ringlets, frizz, scallop, wreathe |
| Antonyms: | straighten |
| Main Entry: | fold |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | double thickness |
| Synonyms: | bend, circumvolution, cockle, convolution, corrugation, crease, crimp, crinkle, dog's ear, flection, flexure, furrow, gather, gathering, groove, knife-edge, lap, lapel, layer, loop, overlap, plait, pleat, plica, plication, plicature, ply, pucker, ridge, rimple, rivel, ruche, ruck, ruffle, rumple, shirring, smocking, tuck, turn, wrinkle |
| Main Entry: | furrow |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ditch |
| Synonyms: | channel, corrugation, crease, crinkle, crow's-foot, dike, fluting, fold, groove, gutter, hollow, line, plica, rabbet, ridge, rimple, rivel, ruck, rut, seam, trench, wrinkle |
| Main Entry: | pucker |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | wrinkle |
| Synonyms: | crease, crinkle, crumple, fold, furrow, plait, ruck, ruckle |
| Antonyms: | smoothness |
| Main Entry: | pucker |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | draw together; wrinkle |
| Synonyms: | cockle, compress, condense, contract, crease, crinkle, crumple, fold, furrow, gather, knit, purse, ruffle, screw up, squeeze, tighten, ruck up, ruckle |
| Antonyms: | open, smooth |
| Main Entry: | ridge |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | raised part of solid |
| Synonyms: | backbone, corrugation, crease, crinkle, elevation, fold, furrow, hill, parapet, pole, range, rib, rim, seam, spine, wrinkle, chine, esker, hogback, moraine, plica, rimple, rivel, ruck, upland |
| Antonyms: | flat, plain |
| Main Entry: | rumple |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | crush, wrinkle |
| Synonyms: | cockle, crease, crimp, crinkle, crumple, derange, dishevel, disorder, fold, mess up, pucker, ruffle, screw up, scrunch, seam, bedraggle, muss up, ruck up, tousle, wreathe |
| Antonyms: | flatten, iron, smooth |
| Main Entry: | rustle |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | swish, whisper |
| Synonyms: | crackle, crinkle, hum, murmur, patter, sigh, stir, tap, whir, crepitate, whish, whoosh |
| Main Entry: | bend |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | form or cause a curve |
| Synonyms: | arch, bow, buckle, careen, circle, contort, crimp, crinkle, crook, crouch, curl, deflect, deform, detour, double, droop, flex, genuflect, hook, incline, lean, loop, pervert, round, spiral, stoop, swerve, tilt, turn, twist, veer, verge, warp, waver, wilt, wind, yaw, zigzag, angle away, angle off, camber, incurvate |
| Antonyms: | straighten |
| Main Entry: | kink |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bend, twist |
| Synonyms: | coil, crimp, crinkle, curl, curve, entanglement, knot, loop, tangle, wrinkle, corkscrew, frizz |
| Antonyms: | line |
| Main Entry: | ruffle |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | mess up |
| Synonyms: | cockle, confuse, crease, crinkle, crumple, crush, derange, disarrange, discompose, dishevel, disorder, pucker, purse, rifle, rumple, tangle, wrinkle, tousle |
| Notes: | a continuous low drumbeat is a ruffle, a continuous even drumbeat is a tattoo, a continuous loud drumbeat is a drumroll |
| Antonyms: | smooth |
| Main Entry: | screw |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | twist, contort |
| Synonyms: | contract, crimp, crinkle, crumple, distort, pucker, rumple, scrunch, wrinkle, rimple, ruck up |
| Antonyms: | unscrew, untwist |
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