All crease synonyms
crease
C c verb crease
- fold β to confine (sheep or other domestic animals) in a fold.
- crinkle β If something crinkles or if you crinkle it, it becomes slightly creased or folded.
- wrinkle β an ingenious trick or device; a clever innovation: a new advertising wrinkle.
- pucker β a wrinkle; an irregular fold.
- pleat β a fold of definite, even width made by doubling cloth or the like upon itself and pressing or stitching it in place.
- ridge β a long, narrow elevation of land; a chain of hills or mountains.
- purse β a woman's handbag or pocketbook.
- cockle β Cockles are small edible shellfish.
- plait β a braid, especially of hair or straw.
- bend β When you bend, you move the top part of your body downwards and forwards. Plants and trees also bend.
- crimp β If you crimp something such as a piece of fabric or pastry, you make small folds in it.
- crumple β If you crumple something such as paper or cloth, or if it crumples, it is squashed and becomes full of untidy creases and folds.
- dog-ear β (in a book) a corner of a page folded over like a dog's ear, as by careless use, or to mark a place.
- corrugate β to fold or be folded into alternate furrows and ridges
- screw up β a metal fastener having a tapered shank with a helical thread, and topped with a slotted head, driven into wood or the like by rotating, especially by means of a screwdriver.
- double up β twice as large, heavy, strong, etc.; twofold in size, amount, number, extent, etc.: a double portion; a new house double the size of the old one.
- tuck β to put into a small, close, or concealing place: Tuck the money into your wallet.
- gather β to bring together into one group, collection, or place: to gather firewood; to gather the troops.
- rumple β to crumple or crush into wrinkles: to rumple a sheet of paper.
- scrunch β to crunch, crush, or crumple.
noun crease
- line β a thickness of glue, as between two veneers in a sheet of plywood.
- overlap β to lap over (something else or each other); extend over and cover a part of; imbricate.
- plica β Zoology, Anatomy. a fold or folding.
- ruck β a fold or wrinkle; crease.
- rimple β a wrinkle.
- rivel β a very small dumpling made of a batter of butter, egg, flour, and seasoning, cooked in broth.
- rugosity β having wrinkles; wrinkled; ridged.
- bulge β If something such as a person's stomach bulges, it sticks out.
- corrugation β a corrugating or being corrugated
- furrow β a narrow groove made in the ground, especially by a plow.
- groove β a long, narrow cut or indentation in a surface, as the cut in a board to receive the tongue of another board (tongue-and-groove joint) a furrow, or a natural indentation on an organism.