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Synonyms for wrinkle
Synonyms for wrinkle: crease and purse. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 2 synonyms for wrinkle
Interchangeable with wrinkle in this sense
Audited under wrinkle's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one wrinkle carries in that sense.
- creaseverb, in the sense "become wrinkled or crumpled or creased"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name wrinkle as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- pursepurse is a verb in the sense "gather or contract into wrinkles or folds"
Two directions, one standard: one audited under wrinkle and one under the partner word. Nothing here was expanded out of a thesaurus.
become wrinkled or crumpled or creased
This fabric won't wrinkle.
The true synonym
crease
Same sentence, swapped: This fabric won't crease.
Close but different
The game offers these three alongside the answer. They are close enough to tempt and wrong enough to be wrong, which is the whole design.
- compact
- plow
- flourish
Where wrinkle turns up in the game
wrinkle is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 3, Ridgeline. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in one other puzzle, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzle where wrinkle is the trap
- plightnoun, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is predicament, in the sense "a situation from which extrication is difficult especially an unpleasant or trying one", and wrinkle is one of the three tiles that lose.
Play wrinkle
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so wrinkle reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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The ring widens as it goes, from change at Ridgeline outward to the whole bank.
One vocabulary, two jobs
wrinkle is an answer in 1 puzzle and a wrong tile in 1. That is how the bank is built, and it is why guessing by vibe stops working around tier three.