Advertisement

Advertisement

View synonyms for corrugated

corrugated

[ kawr-uh-gey-tid, kor- ]

adjective

  1. shaped into wavy folds or alternating furrows and ridges:

    Drops of rain hammered on the corrugated metal roof.

    Your cat can use the toy’s corrugated cardboard center as a scratching mat.



verb

  1. the simple past tense and past participle of corrugate.
Discover More

Other Words From

  • un·cor·ru·gat·ed adjective
Discover More

Word History and Origins

Origin of corrugated1

First recorded in 1585–95; corrugate ( def ) + -ed 2( def ) for the adjective; corrugate ( def ) + -ed 1( def ) for the verb
Discover More

Example Sentences

You’ll need corrugated boxes in various sizes, unless you’re using boxes provided by your carrier.

Inside, mismatched plastic trays sat carefully stacked on industrial metal shelves, stretching all the way from the concrete floor to the corrugated-steel ceiling.

Rather, it can be made from “wood, corrugated metal, polycarbonate plastic, and standard framing hardware,” which allows for the cabins to be prototyped immediately and relatively cost-effectively at scale.

From Fortune

The dugout was covered with semi-circular sheets of corrugated iron, forming a vaulted roof.

At the same time parts of the corrugated iron roof collapsed.

Since the Nehers departed, the school got a corrugated iron roof and there is now a real road into the town.

It ran into a corrugated tin sheet boundary and a large genip tree.

There were trees and electrical poles strewn across the road and corrugated iron roofing that had been ripped off houses.

Its shores were long stretches of mud-flats, corrugated everywhere with thousands of clam-holes.

And the parson went to live in the town, beside his church—in a corrugated iron house that was run up for him.

The corrugated iron roofs were dazzlingly white and smooth—two or three inches of snow in every groove.

The house was a rough, square, one-storeyed building, roofed over with corrugated iron.

A corrugated iron roof had saved it, they said, although there was a good clearing on either side of the shanty.

Advertisement

Related Words

Advertisement

Advertisement

Advertisement


corrugatecorrugated iron