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121Fold — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Fold >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 fold fold plicature plait ply crease Sgm: N 1 tuck tuck gather Sgm: N 1 flexion flexion flexure joint elbow …
122crank — [OE] There appears to be a link between the words crank, cringe, and crinkle. They share the meaning element ‘bending’ or ‘curling up’ (which later developed metaphorically into ‘becoming weak or sick’, as in the related German krank ‘ill’), and… …
123cringe — [13] Like crank, cringe appears to come ultimately from a prehistoric Germanic base *krank whose original meaning was ‘bend’ or ‘curl up’. This produced an Old English verb crincan ‘fall in battle, yield’ (the association of ‘curling up’ and… …
124pucker — I. v. a. Corrugate, furrow, cockle, wrinkle, crinkle, crease, gather into wrinkles or folds, gather. II. n. Fold, wrinkle, crinkle, crease, furrow …
125crease — 1. noun 1) pants with knife edge creases Syn: fold, line, ridge; pleat, tuck; furrow, groove, corrugation 2) the creases at the corners of her eyes Syn: wrinkle, line, crinkle …
126furrow — 1. noun 1) furrows in a plowed field Syn: groove, trench, rut, trough, channel, hollow 2) the furrows on either side of her mouth Syn: wrinkle, line, crease, crinkle, crow s foot …
127pucker — 1. verb she puckered her forehead Syn: wrinkle, crinkle, crease, furrow, crumple, rumple, ruck up, scrunch up, corrugate, ruffle, screw up, shrivel 2. noun a pucker in the sewing Syn: wrinkle, crinkle …
128wrinkle — 1. noun 1) fine wrinkles around her mouth Syn: crease, fold, pucker, line, crinkle, furrow, ridge, groove; informal crow s feet, laugh line 2) the project has some wrinkles to iron out Syn: difficulty …
