crease
noun
[ kriːs ]
• a line or ridge produced on paper or cloth by folding, pressing, or crushing.
• "khaki trousers with knife-edge creases"
Similar:
fold,
groove,
ridge,
furrow,
line,
ruck,
pleat,
tuck,
corrugation,
ruckle,
• any of a number of lines marked on the pitch at specified places.
• an area around the goal in ice hockey or lacrosse which the players may not enter unless the puck or the ball has already done so.
• "he was caught in the crease without the puck"
crease
verb
• make a crease in (cloth or paper).
• "he sank into the chair, careful not to crease his dinner jacket"
Similar:
crumple,
wrinkle,
crinkle,
scrunch up,
rumple,
line,
pucker,
crimp,
ruck up,
gather,
furrow,
ruckle,
press,
iron,
put a crease in,
fold,
corrugate,
pleat,
tuck,
• burst out or cause to burst out laughing.
• "Jo could imitate anybody and always made him crease up"
• hit or punch (someone) hard.
• "clap or I'll crease you"
• (of a bullet) graze (someone or something).
• "a bullet creased his thigh"
Origin:
late 16th century: probably a variant of crest.
