unwrinkle
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "He and she sat side by side like two wax people while the waiter stretched across to unwrinkle the tablecloth and straighten the knives."
- "The job was done before Silver could unwrinkle the grimace on his face."
- "His head protruded out of his torn collar much as the head of the tortoise protrudes from its shell, the throat unwrinkling, the eyes like beads, or pips of jet."
- "In a rain barrel, water unwrinkles to glass; a lime tree’s daughter there studies her face."
- "Emma went through the closet and removed the black gabardine jacket she had hung up to unwrinkle."
Etymology
From un- + wrinkle.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: un