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Definition: Corrugate |
CorrugateVerb1. Fold into ridges; "corrugate iron". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Contraction | Render smaller, lessen, diminish, contract, draw in, narrow, coarctate; boil down; constrict, constringe; condense, compress, squeeze, corrugate, crimp, crunch, crush, crumple up, warp, purse up, pack, squeeze, stow; pinch, tighten, strangle; cramp; dwarf, bedwarf; shorten; circumscribe; restrain. |
Fold | Verb: fold, double, plicate, plait, crease, wrinkle, crinkle, crankle, curl, cocker, rimple, rumple, flute,frizzle, frounce, rivel, twill, corrugate, ruffle, crimple, crumple, pucker; turn down, double down, down under; tuck, ruck, hem, gather. |
Roughness | Render-rough; Adjective: roughen, ruffle, crisp, crumple, corrugate, set on edge, stroke the wrong way, rumple. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Corrugate |
| English words defined with "corrugate": Corrugating. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "corrugate": SUPERVISOR, PAPER PRODUCTS. (references) |
| "Corrugate" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Corrugate" is used about 2 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 (infinitive) | 100% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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 |
corrugate | 20 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "corrugate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | zhubros (crease, Crinkle, crumple, crush, dishevel, wrinkle), valëzoj (ruffle), rrudh (furrow, shirr). (various references) | |
Arabic | تموج (fluctuate, ripple, roll, ruffle, stream, undulate, undulation, vibration, wave), تغضن (cockle, crinkle, crumple, furrow, pucker, ruffle, shrivel, wrinkle), تجعد (crease, crinkle, crispiness, crumple, curl, frizz, furrow, pucker, ruckle, seize, shrivel, wrinkle), جعد (crease, crimp, crinkle, crumple, crush, frizz, frizzy, furrow, ruckle, ruffle, rumple). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | нагърчвам, нагъвам (cockle, flex, fold, gobble, lap, punish, put away, ruckle, scoff, tuck away, tuck into, walk into, wolf), набръчквам (cockle, crumple, furrow, pucker, purse, ruck, rumple, seam). (various references) | |
Chinese | 成波状 (Corrugating). (various references) | |
Czech | svraštit (pucker, ridgy, rumple, shrivel, wrinkle). (various references) | |
Dutch | onduleren (wave). (various references) | |
Esperanto | ondumi (wave). (various references) | |
Farsi | موجدارکردن (Crisp), چین دادن (Quill, Shirr, Wrinkle), راه راه کردن (Stripe). (various references) | |
French | onduler. (various references) | |
German | wellen (billows, Crimp, Crinkle, to corrugate, undulate, warp, wave, waves). (various references) | |
Greek | ρητιδώ, αυλακώνω (channel, furrow, groove). (various references) | |
Hungarian | csíkoz (streak, to streak, to striate, to stripe), redõz (plait), hullámosít (Marcel, to corrugate, to crimp). (various references) | |
Indonesian | membengkok-bengkok, berkerut (crinkle). (various references) | |
Italian | corrugarsi, corrugare (knit, knot, pucker, wrinkle, wrinkles), ondulare (wave). (various references) | |
Manx | filley (braid, collapse, crease, crinkle, double, double up, entwine, fold, fold up, furl, jackknife, lap, plait, ply, roll up, turn up, wrap), craplaghey (contract, crinkle, purse, stunt, wrinkle). (various references) | |
Norwegian | rifle, bølge. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | orrugatecay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | corrugue, corrugar, ondular (coif, crimp, crinkle, curl, dimple, flaunt, frizz, poise, popple, ripple, splatter, undulate, wave), franzir (full, furrow, kilt, plait, pucker, quill, ruck, ruckle, shirr, wrinkle), enrugar (cockle, crease, crimp, crinkle, crumple, crush, fret, furrow, pucker, ripple, ruffle, rumple, shrivel, wrinkle). (various references) | |
Romanian | ondula (crape, Crimp, crisp, curl, float, ridge, ripple, roll, wave, wind). (various references) | |
Russian | сморщиваться (shrivel, shriveling, shrivelled, shrivelling, shrivels), морщиться (cockle, wince), морщить (crinkle), делать волнистым. (various references) | |
Scottish | sream (become wrinkled, rheum). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | nabirati (crimp, plait, pucker, ruffle, shirr), gofrirati. (various references) | |
Spanish | corrugar, ondular (billow, curl, heave, ripple, roll, slither, undulate, wave, waves). (various references) | |
Swedish | vecka (crease, crimp, crinkle, enfold, fold, frill, frounce, plait, pleat, ruck, ruffle, sennight, shirr, week), korrugera. (various references) | |
Turkish | kırıştırmak (cockle, Crinkle, crumple up, flirt with, frill, furrow, line, pucker, pucker up, ruck, ruck up, ruffle, rumple, shrivel, shrivel up, wrinkle, wrinkle up), kırışmak (become wrinkled, bunch, cockle, crease, Crinkle, crumple, frill, pucker, ripple, ruck, ruck up, ruffle, shrivel, shrivel up, wrinkle), dalgalandırmak (cause to undulate, cockle, crisp, curl, ripple, ruffle, undulate, vex, wave), buruşturmak (cockle, crease, Crinkle, crumple, crumple up, muss, pucker, pucker up, ruck, ruck up, ruckle, ruffle, rumple, shrivel, shrivel up, wrinkle, wrinkle up), buruşmak (cockle, crease, Crinkle, crumple, crush, pucker, ruck, ruck up, ruffle, shrivel, shrivel up, wrinkle). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | гофрувати (frill, gauffer, goffer, quill, ruffle), зморщуватися (crimple, crumple, wizen), зморщувати (crimple). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | vibrabit. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "corrugate": corrugated, corrugates. (additional references) | |
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"Corrugate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: corrorate, Corrouge, corrusgate, corugate, corusgate, Torggate. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "corrugate" (pronounced kô"rugā't) |
| 5 | -r u g ā' t | abrogate, congregate, desegregate, interrogate, irrigate, segregate. |
| 4 | -u g ā' t | castigate, delegate, fumigate, instigate, investigate, mitigate, navigate, obligate, propagate, relegate, subjugate. |
| 3 | -g ā' t | arrogate, floodgate, litigate, profligate, tailgate. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-g-o-r-r-t-u" | |
-2 letters: courage, courter, creator, curator, garrote, grouter, outrace, outrage, reactor. | |
-3 letters: acuter, aerugo, arguer, carrot, carter, coater, coteau, cougar, couter, crater, curare, curate, curter, garote, garret, garter, grater, grocer, orgeat, outage, ragout, rector, router, rugate, tourer, tracer, trocar, turaco, turgor. | |
-4 letters: actor, acute, argot, argue, auger, cager, carer, caret, cargo, carte, cater, corer, court. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-g-o-r-r-t-u" | |
+1 letter: corrugated, corrugates. | |
+3 letters: counterargue, turbocharged, turbocharger. | |
+4 letters: counterargued, counterargues, countercharge, thoroughbrace, turbochargers. | |
+5 letters: conglomerateur, counterarguing, countercharged, countercharges, counterraiding, thoroughbraces. | |
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