crease

Noun

• a Malayan dagger with a wavy blade

• a slight depression in the smoothness of a surface
  • his face has many lines
    
  • ironing gets rid of most wrinkles
    

• an angular or rounded shape made by folding
  • a fold in the napkin
    
  • a crease in his trousers
    
  • a plication on her blouse
    
  • a flexure of the colon
    
  • a bend of his elbow
    

Verb

• become wrinkled or crumpled or creased
  • This fabric won't wrinkle
    

• scrape gently
  • graze the skin
    

• make wrinkled or creased
  • furrow one's brow
    

• make wrinkles or creases on a smooth surface; make a pressed, folded or wrinkled line in
  • The dress got wrinkled
    
  • crease the paper like this to make a crane
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  kris , creese , wrinkle , furrow , crinkle , seam , line , fold , plication , flexure , crimp , bend , rumple , crumple , graze , rake , ruckle , scrunch , scrunch up , crisp