corrugate

[verb kawr-uh-geyt, kor-; adjective kawr-uh-git, -geyt, kor-]

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verb (used with object), cor·ru·gat·ed, cor·ru·gat·ing.

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).

verb (used without object), cor·ru·gat·ed, cor·ru·gat·ing.

to become corrugated; undergo corrugation.

adjective

corrugated; wrinkled; furrowed.

Origin of corrugate

1375–1425; late Middle English < Latin corrūgātus past participle of corrūgāre, equivalent to cor- cor- + rūg(āre) to wrinkle + -ātus -ate¹

Related formscor·ru·gat·ed, adjectivecor·ru·ga·tor, nounun·cor·ru·gat·ed, adjective

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Related Words for corrugated

crumpled, furrowed, fluted, wrinkled, creased, channelled

Examples from the Web for corrugated

Contemporary Examples of corrugated

The dugout was covered with semi-circular sheets of corrugated iron, forming a vaulted roof.
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August 3, 2014
At the same time parts of the corrugated iron roof collapsed.
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August 3, 2014
Since the Nehers departed, the school got a corrugated iron roof and there is now a real road into the town.
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Michael Daly
May 13, 2014
It ran into a corrugated tin sheet boundary and a large genip tree.
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Debra A. Klein
December 1, 2013
There were trees and electrical poles strewn across the road and corrugated iron roofing that had been ripped off houses.
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The Telegraph
November 11, 2013

Historical Examples of corrugated

The corrugated dome of the Nissen hut was wavering and swaying.
A Yankee Flier Over Berlin
Al Avery
The transparency of this sentence is not unlike the transparency of corrugated glass.
The Verbalist
Thomas Embly Osmun, (AKA Alfred Ayres)
How long you been keepin' Corrugated stocks from goin' below par?
Torchy
Sewell Ford
Manages to hang on with the Corrugated,230 though, don't he?
Torchy
Sewell Ford
Say, Tuttle, you know you can't work any 'phony deal on the Corrugated.
Torchy
Sewell Ford

British Dictionary definitions for corrugated

corrugate

verb (ˈkɒrʊˌɡeɪt)

(usually tr) to fold or be folded into alternate furrows and ridges

adjective (ˈkɒrʊɡɪt, -ˌɡeɪt)

folded into furrows and ridges; wrinkled

Derived Formscorrugation, noun

Word Origin for corrugate

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.

corrugate

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.