| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| NOUN: | A line or an arrangement made by the doubling of one part over another: crease, crimp, crinkle, fold, pleat, plica, plication, pucker, rimple, ruck2, rumple, wrinkle. See SMOOTH. | | VERB: | 1. To fall in: buckle, cave in, collapse, give, go. Idioms: give way. See EXPLOSION. 2. To make irregular folds in, especially by pressing or twisting: crease, crimp, crinkle, rimple, rumple, wrinkle. See SMOOTH.
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