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corrugate
[ verb kawr-uh-geyt, kor-; adjective kawr-uh-git, -geyt, kor- ]
verb (used with object)
- to draw or bend into folds or alternate furrows and ridges.
- to wrinkle, as the skin or face.
- Western U.S. to make irrigation ditches in (a field).
verb (used without object)
- to become corrugated; undergo corrugation.
adjective
- corrugated; wrinkled; furrowed.
corrugate
verb
- usually tr to fold or be folded into alternate furrows and ridges
adjective
- folded into furrows and ridges; wrinkled
Derived Forms
- ˌcorruˈgation, noun
Other Words From
- cor·ru·gat·ed adjective
- cor·ru·ga·tor noun
Word History and Origins
Origin of corrugate1
Word History and Origins
Origin of corrugate1
Example Sentences
It’s a corrugated metal box—a two-stall outhouse with a little wooden flag that you can prop up while using the facilities—and it has a view more than worthy of its name.
After getting transferred away from the park in 2015, Ranger Ross has been letting backcountry campers rent out his off-grid, corrugated metal cabin in the painted desert of Arizona and making them smile ever since.
His face would grow grim, the seam-worn forehead would corrugate, the muscles of his jaw throb nervously.
Le Borgne's cheeks corrugate in wrinkles of bronze that leer an evil laugh, and he pretends not to understand.
Yet we had watched his smooth brow furrow and corrugate as under some carking care or devouring sorrow.
However, "broad-browed Verulam," let not that brow's breadth cloud or corrugate in vexation at my persiflage.
Flutes, 72 four inches deep, corrugate the beast's underpart from tail to neck.
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