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Definition: Creased |
CreasedAdjective1. Having wrinkles; "crumpled paper"; "her skirt had become creased"; "a rumpled gray suit". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "creased" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1844. (references) |
Synonyms: CreasedSynonyms: crumpled (adj), rumpled (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Creased |
| English words defined with "creased": crease, crinkle, crumple ♦ fedora, felt hat, furrow ♦ homburg ♦ rumple ♦ Stetson ♦ trilby ♦ unwrinkled ♦ wrinkle, wrinkleless. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "creased": CASE-MAKING-MACHINE OPERATOR, caser operator, cover-making-machine operator, crinkled patent, crushed patent ♦ MAGAZINE REPAIRER ♦ PAPER STRIPPER, PUNCHBOARD ASSEMBLER I, punchboard inserter, punchboard stuffer ♦ RIBBON-HANKING-MACHINE OPERATOR ♦ SLEEVER ♦ VAMP CREASER. (references) |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | He pulled at the visor of his cap and creased it in the middle, breaking its cardboard lining so completely that it could never look new again. |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | Perhaps these have creased it, for you find some of their cases in the furrows, though they are deep and broad for them to make. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Creased" is generally used as a lexical verb (past tense) -- approximately 49.00% of the time. "Creased" is used about 100 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 49% | 49 | 48,677 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 27% | 27 | 66,962 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 23% | 23 | 72,767 |
| Noun (proper) | 1% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 100 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "creased": get creased. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "creased": well-creased. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
creased | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "creased"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مجعد (crimped, curly, frizzly, furrowed). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | смачкан (creasy, crushed), с ръб (edgy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 弄皱 (Creasing, Crumple, Crumpled, Crumpling). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | zmaèkaný (crinkly, crumpled, crushed, wrinkled). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | gerilde plaat (creased pad). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | ryppyinen (crumpled, wrinkled), kurttuinen (crumpled, wrinkled). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | plié (crooked). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | zerknittert (crinkly, crumpled, crumples, remorseful, rumples, washed out, wrinkled), zerknautscht (crumpled, wizened), faltig (lined, wrinkled). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ζαρωμένος (wrinkled). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מקומט (folded, shrievelled, wrinkled), קמוט (contracted, wrinkled). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | ráncos (creasy, crinkly, puckered, puckery, rugous, seamed, weazened, withered, wizen, wizened, wrinkled, wrinkly), gyűrött (crinkled, crinkly, crumpled, rumpled), összegyűrt. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | kucel (crumpled), gumal (crumpled, rumpled, wrinkled). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | stropicciare (crease, crumple, get creased, rub). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | easedcray amassado (screwed up, smashed). (various references) лежащий складками (creasy), помятый. (various references) izgužvan (wrinkled). (various references) plegado (fold, folds, plicate, plicated), arrugado (kinky, lined, seamy, shrivelled, wizened, wrinkled). (various references) hopskrynklad. (various references) katlı (Decker, fold, multiple, pile, storeyed, storied), buruşuk (crease, crinkly, crumpled, lined, liny, pursy, ruck, rugose, wrinkled, wrinkly), buruş buruş (mussy, shrivelled, wrinkled, wrinkly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "creased": decreased, increased, precreased. (additional references) | |
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"Creased" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cerasi, Cereceda, Ceredase, Cressid, crevased, Criaerd, pregassed. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: decares. | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-e-r-s" | |
-1 letter: cadres, ceased, cedars, ceders, crease, creeds, decare, erased, reseda, sacred, scared, screed, seared. | |
-2 letters: acred, acres, aedes, arced, cades, cadre, cards, cared, cares, carse, cased, cease, cedar, ceder, cedes, cered, ceres, creed, daces, dares, dears, deers, drees, eared, eased, erase, escar, raced, races, rased, reads, redes, reeds, saree, scare, scree, seder, serac. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-d-e-e-r-s" | |
+1 letter: acceders, ascender, caressed, decayers, deciares, declares, decrease, defacers, escarped, reascend, rescaled, respaced, screaked, screamed, searched. | |
+2 letters: ardencies, ascenders, berdaches, calenders, cashiered, coarsened, coleaders, credenzas, crevassed, decanters, declarers, decorates, decreased, decreases, decretals, demarches, desecrate, detachers, escalader, headraces, increased, leadscrew, medicares, reaccedes, reaccused, reascends, reclasped, reductase, restacked, scampered, scarehead, scarpered, scattered, surceased. | |
+3 letters: adherences, afterdecks, ancestored, berascaled, cartelised, cheerleads, clepsydrae, crazyweeds, deaconries, debauchers, decaliters, decameters, decenaries, declaimers, decreasing, demarcates, deprecates, descramble, desecrated, desecrater, desecrates, desecrator, dischargee, endarchies, endurances, eradicates, escadrille, escaladers, federacies, forecasted, fricasseed, friedcakes, leadscrews, lowercased, miscreated, overcasted, oversauced, overscaled, pederastic, precreased, predaceous, predecease, predicates, reascended, reductases, reeducates, researched, resurfaced, sacredness, scareheads, screenland, semisacred, transected, uppercased, verdancies. | |
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