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wrinkled

  • past participle
    of wrinkle.
    wrinkle
    noun
    a small furrow or crease in the skin, especially of the face, as from aging or frowning.
  • past tense form
    of wrinkle.
    wrinkle
    noun
    a small furrow or crease in the skin, especially of the face, as from aging or frowning.

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“Yes, there are laws,” said Jesus, his face wrinkled from years of harvesting garlic, pruning grape vines and picking blackberries in the sun-baked San Joaquin Valley.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026

With his high and deeply wrinkled brow and perpetually downturned mouth, Greenspan appeared morose, but he could be quite funny and was popular on the Washington social scene.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 22, 2026

The soap-bubble fantasy of Ms. Lemann’s New Orleans rather calls to mind the Hundred Acre Wood, if Christopher Robin were a gentle, dissipated loafer in a wrinkled seersucker suit.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 23, 2026

To Martindale, the wrinkled surface looked exactly like fossilized microbial mats.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 3, 2026

She watched her dad and Mira together, his thick head of dark hair bent close to her wispy white curls, his young but weathered face and her old, wrinkled one carrying matching lively expressions.

From "The School for Whatnots" by Margaret Peterson Haddix