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unwrinkle

[uhn-ring-kuh l]
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verb (used with object), un·wrin·kled, un·wrin·kling.
  1. to smooth the wrinkles from.

Origin of unwrinkle

First recorded in 1605–15; un-2 + wrinkle1
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Related Words for unwrinkle

express, hold, squeeze, crowd, move, reduce, finish, embrace, flatten, bulldoze, depress, scrunch, condense, crush, jam, pile, hug, ram, compress, squash

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Historical Examples of unwrinkle

  • The eyebrows and lashes had disappeared; the skin, grown hard, could not unwrinkle.

    Beatrix

    Honore de Balzac

  • Hence the Latin phrase, exporrigere frontem—to unwrinkle the brow—means, to be cheerful or merry.