corrugate
corrugate is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 2 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.Wrinkled; crumpled; furrowed; contracted into ridges and furrows.
- 2.To form or shape into wrinkles or folds, or alternate ridges and grooves, as by drawing, contraction, pressure, bending, or otherwise; to wrinkle; to purse up; as, to corrugate plates of iron; to corrugate the forehead. Corrugated iron, sheet iron bent into a series of alternate ridges and grooves in parallel lines, giving it greater stiffness. -- Corrugated paper, a thick, coarse paper corrugated in order to give it elasticity. It is used as a wrapping material for fragile articles, as bottles.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- cocker
- cockle
- corrugation
- crankle
- crease
- crimple
- crinkle
- crumple
- curl
- double
- doubling
- down
- duplicature
- ear
- elbow
- feet
- flexion
- flexure
- flounce
- flute
- fluted
- fold
- frizzle
- frounce
- gather
- hem
- joint
- lapel
- plait
- pleat
- plicate
- plication
- plicature
- ply
- pucker
- rimple
- rivel
- ruck
- ruffle
- rumple
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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