corrugate
[verb kawr-uh-geyt, kor-; adjective kawr-uh-git, -geyt, kor-]
- to draw or bend into folds or alternate furrows and ridges.
- to wrinkle, as the skin or face.
- Western U.S. to make irrigation ditches in (a field).
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- to become corrugated; undergo corrugation.
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- corrugated; wrinkled; furrowed.
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Origin of corrugate
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Examples from the Web for corrugated
Contemporary Examples
The dugout was covered with semi-circular sheets of corrugated iron, forming a vaulted roof.
Life Under Air Strikes: Children Under Fire Will Never Forget — or ForgiveClive Irving
August 3, 2014
At the same time parts of the corrugated iron roof collapsed.
Life Under Air Strikes: Children Under Fire Will Never Forget — or ForgiveClive Irving
August 3, 2014
Since the Nehers departed, the school got a corrugated iron roof and there is now a real road into the town.
It ran into a corrugated tin sheet boundary and a large genip tree.
There were trees and electrical poles strewn across the road and corrugated iron roofing that had been ripped off houses.
Typhoon Haiyan Survivor Describes Utter Devastation in the PhilippinesThe Telegraph
November 11, 2013
Historical Examples
The corrugated dome of the Nissen hut was wavering and swaying.
A Yankee Flier Over BerlinAl Avery
The transparency of this sentence is not unlike the transparency of corrugated glass.
The VerbalistThomas Embly Osmun, (AKA Alfred Ayres)
How long you been keepin' Corrugated stocks from goin' below par?
TorchySewell Ford
Manages to hang on with the Corrugated,230 though, don't he?
TorchySewell Ford
Say, Tuttle, you know you can't work any 'phony deal on the Corrugated.
TorchySewell Ford
corrugate
- (usually tr) to fold or be folded into alternate furrows and ridges
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- folded into furrows and ridges; wrinkled
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Word Origin
C18: from Latin corrūgāre, from rūga a wrinkle
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Word Origin and History for corrugated
adj.
1620s, "wrinkled" (of skin, etc.), past participle adjective from corrugate. Meaning "bent into curves or folds" (of iron, cardboard, etc., for elasticity and strength) is from 1853.
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corrugate
v.
1620s; implied earlier as a past participle adjective (early 15c.), from Latin corrugatus, past participle of corrugare "to wrinkle very much," from com-, intensive prefix (see com-), + rugare "to wrinkle," of unknown origin.
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