v
(transitive) To make or put a wrinkle (or wrinkles) in; furrow; fill with wrinkles.
v
(obsolete, especially Scotland, Northumbria, Yorkshire) To cease (from); to stop; to desist, to let up.
n
A sudden outbreak or outburst; a caprice, a whim.
adj
Having a crease or creases.
v
To press into small ridges or folds, to pleat, to corrugate.
v
(intransitive, dated) To become curled.
v
(intransitive) To become crisp.
v
(transitive) To break into crumbs.
n
A crease, wrinkle, or irregular fold.
v
To press between two hard objects; to squeeze so as to alter the natural shape or integrity, or to force together into a mass.
n
The action of the verb to dash.
v
(intransitive) Of salts and minerals, to crackle when heated, indicating a sudden breakdown of their particles.
v
(transitive) To remove the fluff from.
v
(transitive) To remove the frizz from (hair).
n
A sudden burst of noise and disorder
v
(intransitive) To make ornamental strokes with the pen; to write graceful, decorative figures.
v
(transitive) To curl; to make frizzy.
v
(intransitive) To fry noisily, sizzle.
adj
Gnarled, knotty, twisted.
v
(transitive) To furnish with grates; to protect with a grating or crossbars.
adj
Tangled, tangly, knotty, entangled, matted, snarled, unkempt, or uncombed.
n
Something made up of many confused or conflicting elements; a tangle.
v
(obsolete) To affect [one] painfully; to cause physical pain.'
v
(of poor weather) To be cold; to be bitingly cold.
n
(now,, possibly offensive) A medical condition resulting from deficient hair care in which the uncombed hair becomes irreversibly entangled, forming a matted mass, which can become malodorous and encrusted or sticky.
v
To draw up or contract into folds or wrinkles; to pucker; to knit.
v
(transitive, obsolete) To plait.
v
(transitive) To cause to be wrinkled, to shrivel.
v
(figuratively) To severely hurt (someone's feelings, soul, etc., or something intangible) through acts, words spoken, etc.
v
(intransitive, colloquial, dated) To ride a bicycle furiously on a public highway.
v
To make hair flat by putting oil, water, etc. on it.
v
Obsolete form of splintered.
v
(transitive) To obstruct, as any of the organs; to affect with some obstruction in the organs of sense or respiration.
n
(Scotland) Any long hanging thing, even a lanky person.
n
(dialectal, Leicestershire, Northamptonshire) A heap of tangles or knots, especially in hair.
v
(intransitive) To have a sudden, sharp, local pain, like a twitch; to suffer a keen, darting, or shooting pain.
v
(transitive, archaic) To stop (something) from rippling or undulating.
v
(transitive) To hurt (a person's feelings).
n
A twist on something existing; a novel difference.
v
(obsolete) to wrinkle, to shrink
adj
(obsolete) Alternative spelling of writhled [(obsolete) wrinkled]
adj
Alternative spelling of writhled [(obsolete) wrinkled]
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