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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Wrin·kle, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Wrinkled p. pr. & vb. n. Wrinkling ]
 1. To contract into furrows and prominences; to make a wrinkle or wrinkles in; to corrugate; as, wrinkle the skin or the brow.  “Sport that wrinkled Care derides.”
    Her wrinkled form in black and white arrayed.   --Pope.
 2. Hence, to make rough or uneven in any way.
 A keen north wind that, blowing dry,
 Wrinkled the face of deluge, as decayed.   --Milton.
    Then danced we on the wrinkled sand.   --Bryant.
 To wrinkle at, to sneer at. [Obs.]