I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
wrinkle your nose (= move the muscles near your nose when you do not like something )
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Susan looked at the meal and wrinkled her nose.
wrinkled (= covered in lines because of age )
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an old lady with wrinkled skin
wrinkled/lined (= with a lot of small lines, especially because of old age )
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His wrinkled face must once have been handsome.
your brow furrows/creases/wrinkles (= lines appear on your brow because you are thinking or are worried )
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His brow furrowed. ‘I don’t understand,’ he said.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Her face was old and covered in wrinkles.
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If you hang that dress over the bath, the steam will get the wrinkles out.
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It's made from a special fabric that doesn't leave any wrinkles after you wash it.
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My skirt's full of wrinkles.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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In other accounts, Pliny the Elder wrote that Persian women massaged their faces with yogurt to prevent wrinkles.
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In the world of beauty, wrinkles are big business.
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Indeed, as he shut the car door, he brushed at one sleeve as if to remove wrinkles as well as fluff.
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It's designed to gently exercise the small, delicate facial muscles to help prevent wrinkles and sagging.
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J., drug maker will begin marketing Renova, its new brand name for the prescription wrinkle cream, by February.
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Rather well, with some odd wrinkles, would be my verdict.
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Sure, there are a few unusual wrinkles.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
forehead
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One whale suffered from ` a peculiar snow-white wrinkled forehead ...
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Open lips, wrinkled forehead , the skin expressing utter surrender, traits of the original person.
nose
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Isobel looked up and laughed herself, her nose wrinkling up like a child's.
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At the same time as her nose wrinkled , the corners of her mouth turned down and her eyelids drooped.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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My blue jacket wrinkles too easily.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Isobel looked up and laughed herself, her nose wrinkling up like a child's.
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With slow wrinkling his stiff face relaxed now and then into a feminine tender smile.