wrinkle
US: /ˈɹɪŋkəɫ/
UK: /ɹˈɪŋkəl/
English - Vietnamese dictionary
wrinkle /'riɳkl/- danh từ
- (thông tục) ngón; lời mách nước
- to put somebody up to a wrinkle: mách nước cho ai
- (từ Mỹ,nghĩa Mỹ), (thông tục) hàng mới; mốt mới
- the latest wrinkle: hàng mới nhất; mốt mới nhất, kiểu mới nhất
- (thông tục) ngón; lời mách nước
- danh từ
- vết nhăn (da)
- gợn sóng (trên mặt nước)
- nếp (quần áo)
- (địa lý,địa chất) nếp gấp
- ngoại động từ
- nhăn, cau
- to wrinkle [up] one's forehead: nhăn trán
- to wrinkle one's brow: cau mày
- làm nhàu
- to wrinkle a dress: làm nhàu cái áo
- nhăn, cau
- nội động từ
- nhăn (da), cau lại (mày)
- nhàu (quần áo)
Advanced English dictionary
noun, verb+ noun
1 a line or small fold in your skin, especially on your face, that forms as you get older: There were fine wrinkles around her eyes.
2 [usually pl.] a small fold that you do not want in a piece of fabric or paper
+ verb
1 ~ (sth) (up) to make the skin on your face tighten into lines or folds; to form lines or folds in this way: [VN] She wrinkled up her nose in distaste. + He wrinkled his brow in concentration. + [V] His face wrinkled in a grin.
2 to form raised folds or lines in an untidy way; to make sth do this: [V] Her stockings were wrinkling at the knees. [also VN]
Thesaurus dictionary
n.
1 crease, fold, line, furrow, crinkle, crow's-foot, corrugation, pucker, ridge:
She hasn't a wrinkle on her face - but then she's only nine.
v.
2 crease, fold, line, furrow, crinkle, corrugate, pucker, gather, ruck, crimp, screw up, rumple, crumple:
I love the way you wrinkle your nose when you're perplexed.
n.
dodge, gimmick, device, ploy, ruse, scheme, trick, idea, plan, plot, stunt, way, approach, technique, method, Slang chiefly Brit wheeze:
Leave it to Edmund to come up with a new wrinkle for fleecing pensioners.
Collocation
ADJ.
fine
VERB + WRINKLE
have | get | prevent
Is there anything you can do to prevent wrinkles?
WRINKLE + VERB
appear, form
Fine wrinkles started to appear round her eyes.
PREP.
without a ~
Her skin was still without a wrinkle.
Concise dictionary
wrinkles|wrinkled|wrinkling'rɪŋklnoun
+a slight depression in the smoothness of a surface
+a minor difficulty
+a clever method of doing something (especially something new and different)
verb
+gather or contract into wrinkles or folds; pucker
+make wrinkles or creases into a smooth surface
+make wrinkled or creased
+become wrinkled or crumpled or creased
