adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
face
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With his pale, wrinkled face and his red, staring eyes, he looked like a devil out of hell.
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His wrinkled face must once have been handsome.
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The wrinkled face of a gigantic tortoise.
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Mr Hellyer was digging with extraordinary vigour, the sweat streamed in runnels down his dark, rather engagingly wrinkled face .
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Typically, brownies are small and shaggy haired, with a brown, wrinkled face .
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But she was tiny, with a wrinkled face and steely grey eyes.
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I could see the contention in his wrinkled face .
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Tiptoeing over to the crib, he looked down at the red wrinkled face of the sleeping child.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a small man with a balding head and a very wrinkled face
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At the far end of the market, a wrinkled old woman sat smoking a pipe.
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Chris, as usual, came in wearing old jeans and a wrinkled T-shirt.
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Her face looked old and wrinkled in the morning light.
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Mrs Franz sat on the step, shelling peas with her wrinkled old hands.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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For example, oedema of dependent parts suggests fluid excess, while dry, wrinkled skin and a dry tongue suggest fluid deficit.
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His wrinkled face must once have been handsome.
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It secretes a new, soft wrinkled skin beneath the shell.
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The wrinkled face of a gigantic tortoise.
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The tiddly ball completed the journey in his wrinkled hand.
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Their skin was as wrinkled and brown as an old football and on their heads were perched steel air-raid helmets.