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Adjective: wrinkled  ring-kuld
  1. Marked by wrinkles
    "tired travellers in wrinkled clothes";
    - wrinkly
     
  2. (of linens or clothes) not ironed
    "a pile of wrinkled laundry";
    - unironed
Verb: wrinkle  ring-kul
  1. Gather or contract into wrinkles or folds; pucker
    "wrinkle ones's lips";
    - purse
     
  2. Make wrinkled or creased
    "wrinkle one's brow";
    - furrow, crease
     
  3. Become wrinkled, crumpled or creased
    "This fabric won't wrinkle";
    - rumple, crumple, crease, crinkle
     
  4. [archaic] Make wrinkles or creases on a smooth surface; make a pressed, folded or wrinkled line in; 'crisp' is archaic
    "The dress got wrinkled";
    - ruckle [archaic], crease [archaic], crinkle [archaic], scrunch [archaic], scrunch up [archaic], crisp [archaic]

See also: drip-dry, furrowed, permanent-press, rough, roughdried, rugged, unpressed, unsmooth, unsmoothed

Type of: contract, fold, fold up, turn up

Antonym: ironed

Encyclopedia: Wrinkle