unwrinkle
Verb
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Verb
unwrinkle (unwrinkles, present participle unwrinkling; past and past participle unwrinkled)
- (transitive) To remove wrinkles from.
- 1935, Elizabeth Bowen, The House in Paris, New York: Vintage, 1957, Part Two, p. 140,
- He and she sat side by side like two wax people while the waiter stretched across to unwrinkle the tablecloth and straighten the knives.
- 2000, Gary Soto, Nickel and Dime, Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, Part 2, p. 85,
- The job was done before Silver could unwrinkle the grimace on his face.
- 1935, Elizabeth Bowen, The House in Paris, New York: Vintage, 1957, Part Two, p. 140,
- (intransitive) To stop being wrinkly; to become flat or smooth.
- 1959, Mervyn Peake, Titus Alone, New York: Ballantine, 1968, Chapter 66, p. 179,
- His head protruded out of his torn collar much as the head of the tortoise protrudes from its shell, the throat unwrinkling, the eyes like beads, or pips of jet.
- 1987, Derek Walcott, “Cul de Sac Valley” in The Arkansas Testament, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, p. 11,
- In a rain barrel, water
- unwrinkles to glass;
- a lime tree’s daughter
- there studies her face.
- 1996, Charles Mathes, The Girl Who Remembered Snow, New York: St. Martin’s Press, Chapter 15, p. 212,
- Emma went through the closet and removed the black gabardine jacket she had hung up to unwrinkle.
- 1959, Mervyn Peake, Titus Alone, New York: Ballantine, 1968, Chapter 66, p. 179,
- German: glätten
- (remove wrinkles from) flatten out, smooth
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