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creased adjective [ kriːst ]

• marked by creases or wrinkles.
• "a creased piece of paper"

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,
Opposite: press, crumple,
• 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.


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