WRINKLED


Meaning of WRINKLED in English

adjective

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

wrinkled (= covered in lines because of age )

an old lady with wrinkled skin

wrinkled/lined (= with a lot of small lines, especially because of old age )

His wrinkled face must once have been handsome.

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

face

With his pale, wrinkled face and his red, staring eyes, he looked like a devil out of hell.

His wrinkled face must once have been handsome.

The wrinkled face of a gigantic tortoise.

Mr Hellyer was digging with extraordinary vigour, the sweat streamed in runnels down his dark, rather engagingly wrinkled face .

Typically, brownies are small and shaggy haired, with a brown, wrinkled face .

But she was tiny, with a wrinkled face and steely grey eyes.

I could see the contention in his wrinkled face .

Tiptoeing over to the crib, he looked down at the red wrinkled face of the sleeping child.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a small man with a balding head and a very wrinkled face

At the far end of the market, a wrinkled old woman sat smoking a pipe.

Chris, as usual, came in wearing old jeans and a wrinkled T-shirt.

Her face looked old and wrinkled in the morning light.

Mrs Franz sat on the step, shelling peas with her wrinkled old hands.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

For example, oedema of dependent parts suggests fluid excess, while dry, wrinkled skin and a dry tongue suggest fluid deficit.

His wrinkled face must once have been handsome.

It secretes a new, soft wrinkled skin beneath the shell.

The wrinkled face of a gigantic tortoise.

The tiddly ball completed the journey in his wrinkled hand.

Their skin was as wrinkled and brown as an old football and on their heads were perched steel air-raid helmets.

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