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Crease

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Noun

1. bend, crease, crimp, flexure, fold, plication

an angular or rounded shape made by folding

Example Sentences:
'a fold in the napkin'
'a crease in his trousers'
'a plication on her blouse'
'a flexure of the colon'
'a bend of his elbow'

2. crease, crinkle, furrow, line, seam, wrinkle

a slight depression in the smoothness of a surface

Example Sentences:
'his face has many lines'
'ironing gets rid of most wrinkles'

3. crease, creese, kris

a Malayan dagger with a wavy blade

Verb

4. crease, crinkle, crisp, ruckle, scrunch, scrunch up, wrinkle

make wrinkles or creases on a smooth surface; make a pressed, folded or wrinkled line in

Example Sentences:
'The dress got wrinkled'
'crease the paper like this to make a crane'

5. crease, furrow, wrinkle

make wrinkled or creased

Example Sentences:
'furrow one's brow'

6. crease, graze, rake

scrape gently

Example Sentences:
'graze the skin'

7. crease, crinkle, crumple, rumple, wrinkle

become wrinkled or crumpled or creased

Example Sentences:
'This fabric won't wrinkle'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.


Crease

see synonyms of crease
noun
1. 
a line or mark produced by folding, pressing, or wrinkling
2. 
a wrinkle or furrow, esp on the face
3. cricket
any three lines near each wicket marking positions for the bowler or batsman
See also bowling crease, popping crease, return crease
4. ice hockey
the small rectangular area in front of each goal cage
5. Also called: goal crease lacrosse
the circular area surrounding the goal
verb
6. 
to make or become wrinkled or furrowed
7. (transitive)
to graze with a bullet, causing superficial injury
8. (often foll by up) slang
to be or cause to be greatly amused
noun
a rare spelling of kris

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Crease

see synonyms of crease
noun
1. 
a line, mark, or ridge made by folding and pressing cloth, paper, etc.
the crease in trousers
2. 
a fold or wrinkle
creases in a jowl
3.  Cricket
any of the lines that mark off the station of the batsman or of the bowler
4.  Hockey and Lacrosse
an area marked off by lines in front of or around the goal cage, which cannot be entered by players on the offense except under certain conditions
verb transitiveWord forms: creased or ˈcreasing
5. 
to fold and make a crease in
6. 
to wrinkle; muss
7.  US
to graze and injure slightly with a bullet
verb intransitive
8. 
to become creased
noun
alt. sp. of
kris

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.


Crease

see synonyms of crease
n.
1. A line made by pressing, folding, or wrinkling.
2. Sports
a. In hockey, an area marked in front of the goal in which an offensive player can score a goal only if the puck reaches the area before the player does.
b. In lacrosse, the circle marked around the goal into which offensive players cannot enter.
c. One of the lines in cricket marking off the positions of the bowler and batter or the space between two of these lines.
v. creased, creas·ing, creas·es
v.tr.
1. To make a pressed, folded, or wrinkled line in.
2. To graze or wound superficially with a bullet.
v.intr.
To become wrinkled.

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