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Crease   /kris/   Listen
Crease

noun
1.
An angular or rounded shape made by folding.  Synonyms: bend, crimp, flexure, fold, plication.  "A crease in his trousers" , "A plication on her blouse" , "A flexure of the colon" , "A bend of his elbow"
2.
A slight depression in the smoothness of a surface.  Synonyms: crinkle, furrow, line, seam, wrinkle.  "Ironing gets rid of most wrinkles"
3.
A Malayan dagger with a wavy blade.  Synonyms: creese, kris.
verb
(past & past part. creased; pres. part. creasing)
1.
Make wrinkles or creases on a smooth surface; make a pressed, folded or wrinkled line in.  Synonyms: crinkle, crisp, ruckle, scrunch, scrunch up, wrinkle.  "Crease the paper like this to make a crane"
2.
Make wrinkled or creased.  Synonyms: furrow, wrinkle.
3.
Scrape gently.  Synonyms: graze, rake.
4.
Become wrinkled or crumpled or creased.  Synonyms: crinkle, crumple, rumple, wrinkle.



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"Crease" Quotes from Famous Books



... tickling the feet, with gales of laughter, and a few are described as showing an almost morbid reluctance to wear anything upon the feet, or even to having them touched by others.... Several almost fall in love with the great toe or the little one, especially admiring some crease or dimple in it, dressing it in some rag of silk or bit of ribbon, or cut-off glove fingers, winding it with string, prolonging it by tying on bits of wood. Stroking the feet of others, especially ...
— Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 5 (of 6) • Havelock Ellis
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... curious. Rare is the luxury of living when life is unconstrained, unfettered by conventionalities and the comic parade of the fashions. The real significance of freedom here is realised. What matters it that London decrees a crease down the trouser legs if those garments are but of well-bleached blue dungaree? The spotless shirt, how paltry a detail when a light singlet is the only wear? Of what trifling worth dapper boots to feet made leathery by contact with the clean, crisp, oatmeal-coloured sand. Here ...
— The Confessions of a Beachcomber • E J Banfield
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... have noticed that deep, deep dimple in his chin?" she questioned innocently. Keith Cameron, I may say, did not have a dimple in his chin at all; there was, however, a deep crease ...
— Her Prairie Knight • B.M. Sinclair, AKA B. M. Bower
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... until he was sitting with his back against the wall at the head of his bunk and smoked a cigarette before he went any farther. Then he unwrapped the bandage carefully, removed the splint that hurt the worst, and gently massaged the crease in the bruised, swollen flesh where the narrow board ...
— The Ranch at the Wolverine • B. M. Bower
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... remarks on the ambiguity of the word fast (Tract III, p. 12) I read in the report of a Lancashire cricket match that Makepeace was the only batsman who was fast-footed. But for the context and my knowledge of the game I should have concluded that Makepeace kept his feet immovably on the crease; but the very opposite was intended. At school we used to translate [Greek: podas [^o]kus Achilleus] "swift-footed Achilles", and I took that to mean that Achilles was a sprinter. I suppose quick-footed would be the epithet ...
— Society for Pure English Tract 4 - The Pronunciation of English Words Derived from the Latin • John Sargeaunt
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