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1. Make wrinkles or creases on a smooth surface; make a pressed, folded or wrinkled line in
   "crease the paper like this to make a crane";
   - wrinkle, ruckle, crinkle, scrunch, scrunch up, crisp
    
2. Make wrinkled or creased
   "crease one's brow";
   - furrow, wrinkle
    
3. Scrape gently
   "crease the skin";
   - graze, rake
    
4. Become wrinkled, crumpled or creased
   "This fabric won't crease";
   - rumple, crumple, wrinkle, crinkle

1. An angular or rounded shape made by folding
   "a crease in his trousers";
   - fold, plication, flexure, crimp, bend
    
2. A slight depression in the smoothness of a surface
   "ironing gets rid of most creases";
   - wrinkle, furrow, crinkle, seam, line
    
3. A Malayan dagger with a wavy blade
   - kris, creese [archaic]

Sounds like: kris, creese

Derived forms: creasing, creases, creased

Type of: angular shape, angularity, brush, dagger, depression, fold, fold up, impression, imprint, sticker, turn up

Part of: cutis, skin, tegument

Encyclopedia: Crease