Definition of Corrugate

1. Verb. Fold into ridges. "Corrugate iron"

Generic synonyms: Fold, Fold Up, Turn Up
Derivative terms: Corrugation, Corrugation

Definition of Corrugate

1. a. Wrinkled; crumpled; furrowed; contracted into ridges and furrows.

2. v. t. To form or shape into wrinkles or folds, or alternate ridges and grooves, as by drawing, contraction, pressure, bending, or otherwise; to wrinkle; to purse up; as, to corrugate plates of iron; to corrugate the forehead.

Definition of Corrugate

1. Verb. (context: of the skin) To wrinkle ¹

2. Verb. to fold into parallel folds, grooves or ridges ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Corrugate

1. [v -GATED, -GATING, -GATES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Corrugate

corrosion casting
corrosion of tissue
corrosions
corrosive
corrosive of tissue
corrosive sublimate
corrosive ulcer
corrosively
corrosiveness
corrosivenesses
corrosives
corrosivity
corroval
corrovaline
corrugant
corrugate (current term)
corrugated
corrugated board
corrugated cardboard
corrugated fastener
corrugated iron
corrugates
corrugating
corrugation
corrugations
corrugator
corrugator cutis muscle of anus
corrugator muscle
corrugator supercilii
corrugators

Literary usage of Corrugate

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1889)
"To wrinkle ; draw or contract into folds ; pucker : as, to corrugate the skin ; to corrugate iron plates for use in building. Culti and dryness ilo both of ..."

2. Report of the Proceedings of the ... Annual Convention of the American (1875)
"I corrugate them about three-quarters of an inch. Three men will corrugate ... I have no trouble with the cracking of sheets since I commenced to corrugate. ..."

3. Synoptical Flora of North America: The Gamopetalae, Being a Second Edition by Asa Gray (1888)
"... the ventral ridge or the incurved margins, or both, becoming corrugate- ... the largest almost 2 lines long, at maturity corrugate-tuber- culate on the ..."

4. Proceedings of the Engineers' Society of Western Pennsylvania (1892)
"The corrugated iron should lie laid with 6 inch lap lengthwise of sheet and one corrugate lap crosswise for a cheap job or one and one-half corrugate lap ..."

5. Catalogue of the Conchifera of Bivalve Shells in the Collection of the by Gérard Paul Deshayes (1853)
"Venus corrugate, Desk, in Lamk. ed. 2. vi. 351. Hanley (pro var.2), Descr. Cat. p. 120. Tapes corrugate, Sot». Thes. Conch, p. 691. pi. 150. f. 121122. Hob. ..."

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