corrugated

[kawr-uh-gey-tid, kor-]

adjective

1. shaped into wavy folds or alternating furrows and ridges.

   Drops of rain hammered on the corrugated metal roof.

   Your cat can use the toy’s corrugated cardboard center as a scratching mat.

verb

1. the simple past tense and past participle of corrugate.

Other Word Forms

• uncorrugated adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of corrugated¹

First recorded in 1585–95; corrugate ( def. ) + -ed ² ( def. ) for the adjective; corrugate ( def. ) + -ed ¹ ( def. ) for the verb

Example Sentences

People helped to clear up the damaged site afterwards, moving sheets of corrugated metal.

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She rubbed clothes against a washboard with a surface of corrugated metal to help get the dirt out.

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Buildings in Whitehouse were destroyed or crumpled, with corrugated roofs strewn across the ground.

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Wind thrashes around the car park in the dim dawn light, rattling the corrugated supermarket shutters and sending discarded carrier bags billowing as rain tumbles on to the asphalt.

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From his window, he and his grandchildren have a clear view of the simple wooden shelter and corrugated iron shed put up by Israeli settlers that Ayman says are from the nearby settlement of Yitzhar.

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Related Words

• crumpled