Crease

Definition: Crease

Crease

Noun

1. An angular shape made by folding.

2. A slight depression in the smoothness of a surface; "his face has many lines"; "ironing gets rid of most wrinkles".

Verb

1. Make wrinkles or creases into a smooth surface; "The dress got wrinkled".

2. Make wrinkled or creased; "furrow one's brow".

3. Scrape gently.

4. Become wrinkled or crumpled or creased; "This fabric won't wrinkle".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "crease" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1838. (references)

Etymology: Crease \Crease\, noun. [Compare to Low German krus, German krause, crispness, krausen, kr[aum]usen, to crisp, curl, lay on folds; or perhaps of Celtic origin; compare to Armor. kriz a wrinkle, crease, kriza to wrinkle, fold, Welsh crych a wrinkle, crychu to rumple, ripple, crease.]. (references)

Public Administration

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Crease

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.

Noun: fold, plicature, plait, pleat,ply, crease; tuck, gather; flexion, flexure, joint, elbow, double, doubling, duplicature, gather, wrinkle, rimple, crinkle, crankle, crumple, rumple, rivel, ruck, ruffle, dog's ear, corrugation, frounce, flounce, lapel; pucker, crow's feet; plication.

Crosswords: Crease

In the Crease (2000)

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Books

• Crease anthropology : issues and applications (reference)

• Death in the Crease (reference)

• Henry & self : the private life of Sarah Crease 1826-1922 (reference)

• The Crease family archives : a record of settlement and service in British Columbia (reference)

  (more book examples)

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Health

A crease just above the tip of the nose from constant upward nose wiping (allergic salute). (references)

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Expressions using "crease": Bowling crease ♦ crease over ♦ crease up ♦ goal crease ♦ popping crease ♦ return crease. Additional references.

Beginning with "crease": crease-downward, crease-free, crease-proof, crease-resistant, crease-torn.

Ending with "crease": non-crease, popping-crease, toe-crease.

Albanian

zhubros (corrugate, Crinkle, crumple, crush, dishevel, wrinkle), zhubër (ridge, wrinkle), rrudhos (pucker, ruck, ruffle, wrinkle), rrudhë (cockle, corrugation, Crinkle, furrow, pucker, ruckle, rugosity, seam, wrinkle). (various references)

Arabic 

‏غضن (buckle, pucker, purse, rumple, spray, wrinkle), ‏غصن (bough, branch, crumple, shoot, sprig), ‏تجعد (corrugate, crinkle, crispiness, crumple, curl, frizz, furrow, pucker, ruckle, seize, shrivel, wrinkle), ‏خط ملعب الكريكيت, ‏جعد (corrugate, crimp, crinkle, crumple, crush, frizz, frizzy, furrow, ruckle, ruffle, rumple), ‏جرح جرحا. (various references)

Bulgarian 

смачквам (crush, jam out, press, ruck, rumple, scrunch, smash, squash, wad), ръб (arris, board, border, brim, brink, edge, flange, fold, fringe, hem, keel, ledge, limb, list, margin, rand, rib, ridge, rim, shoulder, side), чупка (bend, Crinkle, kink, return, traverse), фалц (fillister, guard, rabbet), гънка (circumvolution, cockle, corrugation, doubling, fold, kink, lap, plication, pocket, pucker, rugosity, rumple, wrinkle), наранявам леко, мачкам (crumple, knead, mash, maul, paw, squash, squeeze, squish, work), малайски кинжал, правя ръб, правя фалц на. (various references)

Chinese 

折痕. (various references)

Czech

zmaèkat se (crumple, crush), záhyb (Crinkle, fold, gather, meander, plait, ply, pucker, roll, ruck, twirl, wrinkle), udìlat puky, puk (puck), pomaèkat (bruise), pomaèkání, přehyb, maèkat se (crowd, throng). (various references)

Danish

strygefold, fold (fold, furrow, wrinkle), bukning (folding, raising, score), bukke (common bogbean, groove, marsh buckbean, marsh trefoil, score). (various references)

Dutch

verfomfaaien (crumble, dishevel, tousle), kreukelen (crumble), frommelen (crumble). (various references)

Esperanto

ĉifi (crumble). (various references)

Faeroese

rukka (crumble, furrow, wrinkle). (various references)

Farsi 

چین دارکردن (Plait), چین دارشدن , چین (Chitlings, Crimp, Fold, Offset, Plait, Pleat, Puchery, Wrinkle), خطاطوی شلوار, شکن (Plica). (various references)

Finnish

ryppy (furrow, gather, pucker, wrinkle), rypistyä (get crumpled), rypistää (crumple, wrinkle), kurttu (wrinkle). (various references)

French

froisser (crumble, crumple, crush), pli. (various references)

German

Falte (Crinkle, fold, furrow, line, plait, pleat, ruck, tuck, wrinkle), zerknittern (Crinkle, crumble, crumple, rumple, to crumple), knick (buckling, crack, Crinkle, dog-ear, kink, veer), Bügelfalte. (various references)

Greek 

πτυχή (crumple, fold, plait, ply, pucker, rimple, ruck, ruffle, tuck). (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"תקמט (crumple, ruckle, wrinkle), קמט (fold, pleat, wrinkle). (various references)

Hungarian

vasalás (armour, hinge, iron mounting, ironing, pressing, reinforcement, tramp), szamárfül (earmark), redő (crinkle, crinkling, fold, pleat, pucker, wimple, wrinkle), ráncosodik (alligator, to become lined, to crease), ráncol (ruckle, to corrugate, to crease, to crinkle, to drape, to pucker, to tuck, to wrinkle, wrinkle), ránc (crinkle, crinkling, crumpling, flounce, furrow, pleat, plica, pucker, puckering, ruckle, wimple, wrinkle), maláji tőr (creese), hullámos pengéjű maláji tőr (creese), gyûrõdés (cockle), gyűrődés (creasing, crinkling, fold, kink, pucker, puckering). (various references)

Indonesian

mengerut (contract, shrink, shrivel, wrinkle), lipatan (flounce, fold, pleat, quill). (various references)

Italian

piega (bends, Crinkle, fold, inclines, plait, pleat, ply, tuck, turn, twist, wrinkle). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

筋目 (fold, lineage, pedigree). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

すじめ (fold, lineage, pedigree). (various references)

Manx

filley (braid, collapse, corrugate, crinkle, double, double up, entwine, fold, fold up, furl, jackknife, lap, plait, ply, roll up, turn up, wrap). (various references)

Pig Latin

easecray.(various references)

Portuguese

vinco (fold, groove, ruckle, wrinkle), prega (cockle, crumple, double, flute, gather, kink, plait, pleat, ply, pucker, ripple, ruck, ruckle, shir, shirr, tuck, wrinkle), amarrotar (cockle, crumble, crumple, ruffle, rumple, tousle). (various references)

Romanian

cutã (flow, fold, frill, line, ply, seam, wrinkle), creţ (Crimp, crisp, curly, curly haired, frizzy, kinky, pleated, ridge, wrinkle), se şifona (ruffle), se încreţi (corrugate, crisp, crumple, dimple, ripple, ruck, wrinkle), pliu (Crinkle), şifona (cockle, crumple, crush), îndoiturã (bent, buckle, cockle, crack, flection, fold, sag), îndoi (bend, bow, cockle, crook, crouch, curve, dog's-ear, double, draw, ear-mark, fold, hunch, inflect, ply, redouble, stoop, tuck in), încreţiturã (cockle, dimple, flow, ridge, rugosity, wrinkle). (various references)

Russian 

старое русло реки, складка (corrugation, fold, lappet, plait, plica, plication, ply, ruck, tuck, wrinkle), черта (band, habit, line, streak, stria, stripe, stroke, trace), конек (fancy, hobbyhorse, ice skate, pipit, ridge, skate, titlark), мяться (crumple), мять складка, мять (crumple, crush, mill, rumple), морщина (cockle, corrugation, line, pucker, ruck, rugosity, wrinkle), загибать, делать складки (pucker, ruck, tuck). (various references)

Scottish

cramaist (a crease by folding:), lurc (a crease in cloth). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

nabrati (pleat, rumple, tuck), nabor (crinkle, fold, frill, goffer, plait, pleat, pucker, ruck, tuck, wrinkle), mrgoditi se (pucker, wrinkle), mrštiti se (frown, ruck), gužvati se (rumple, wrinkle), brazda (furrow, rill, rut, wake). (various references)

Spanish

pliegue (fold, kink, plait, pleat, plication, pucker, tuck), arruga (cockle, Crinkle, fold, furrow, kink, line, pucker, ridge, ruck, ruffle, rumple, seam, wrinkle). (various references)

Swedish

vecka (corrugate, Crimp, crinkle, enfold, fold, frill, frounce, plait, pleat, ruck, ruffle, sennight, shirr, week), veck (cockle, convolution, crimp, Crinkle, fold, plait, pleat, ply, pucker, ruck, ruckle, tuck, wrinkle), skrynkla (cockle, Crinkle, wrinkle), rynka (Crinkle, frill, furrow, gather, knit, line, pleat, pucker, shirr, wringkle, wrinkle). (various references)

Turkish

ceza alanı, kat yeri, buruşmak (cockle, corrugate, Crinkle, crumple, crush, pucker, ruck, ruck up, ruffle, shrivel, shrivel up, wrinkle), buruşturmak (cockle, corrugate, Crinkle, crumple, crumple up, muss, pucker, pucker up, ruck, ruck up, ruckle, ruffle, rumple, shrivel, shrivel up, wrinkle, wrinkle up), buruşuk (creased, crinkly, crumpled, lined, liny, pursy, ruck, rugose, wrinkled, wrinkly), kırışık (corrugation, Crinkle, crinkly, crisp, crispy, furrow, liny, pucker, ruck, seam, wrinkle, wrinkled, wrinkly), ütü çizgisi, kıvrım (bend, convolution, Crimp, curve, flection, flexion, fold, frizz, hook, meander, plait, plat, sinuosity, sweep, twine, twirl, twist, undulation, volute), sıyırmak (abrade, bark, brush, glance off, graze, hitch, scar, scrape, shave, skim, skin, slip, slip off), katıla katıla gülmek (laugh over, shake one's sides with laughter, shriek with laughter, split, split one's sides, split one's sides with laughter), katlamak (bend, Crimp, double, drape, enfold, fold, fold down, fold down back, infold, pleat, shut, tuck, tuck up, turn back), katlanmak (abide, accept, bear, Brook, digest, do with, double, endure, face, face up to, go through, grin and bear it, last out, lump, lump it, put up with, sit down under, stand, stand the racket, stick, stick it, stick out, stomach, suffer, sustain, sweat out, take, take it, take one's medicine, tolerate, undergo), pli (flute, fluting, fold, plait, pleat, tuck), pli yapmak (flute, kilt, plait, pleat), pot (atrocity, bloomer, blunder, Boner, break, clanger, contretemps, faux pas, gaff, jackpot, kitty, pool, pot, stake), kırışmak (become wrinkled, bunch, cockle, corrugate, Crinkle, crumple, frill, pucker, ripple, ruck, ruck up, ruffle, shrivel, shrivel up, wrinkle). (various references)

Turkmen 

epin (fold, pleat). (various references)

Ukrainian

складка (corrugation, flexure, plait, pleat, plica, plication, ply, ruckle, tuck, wimple, wrinkle), робити складки (crimple, ruck, ruckle, tuck in), гребінь даху, м'ятися (crumple, crush), згин (bending, bight, buckle, flection, flexion, fold, ply, wimple, wind, winding, wriggle), зморшка (cockle, corrugation, crumple, pucker, rugosity, wrinkle), загинатися (turn up). (various references)

Vietnamese 

nếp nhăn (crinkle, pucker), nếp gấp (ruckle, wrinkling). (various references)

rugae, rugam. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "crease": creased, creaseless, creaser, creasers, creases. (additional references)

Words ending with "crease": decrease, increase, precrease. (additional references)

Words containing "crease": decreased, decreases, hepatopancreases, increased, increaser, increasers, increases, pancreases, precreased, precreases. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Crease" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ceasem, ceasg, cerade, cerae, cerasi, Ceredase, cerese, cervase, Cgegae, clease, crause, creame, creare, Creasser, creast, creeze, Creige, creise, Creoser, Crepsi, crese, Cresse, crevaase, crevas, crevase, criacao, cruase, erease, Kgeisje, Kreisel, trease, urease. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: acres, cares, carse, cease, ceres, erase, escar, races, saree, scare, scree, serac.

-2 letters: aces, acre, arcs, ares, arse, care, cars, case, cees, cere, ears, ease, eras, race, rase, recs, rees, scar, sear, seer, sera, sere.

-3 letters: ace, arc, are, ars, car, cee, ear, era, ere, ers, ras, rec, ree, res, sac, sae, sea.

+1 letter: acerose, amerces, careens, careers, caserne, cerates, cereals, cesurae, creased, creaser, creases, creates, decares, ecartes, escaper, racemes, reaches, recanes, refaces, relaces, rescale, respace, sclerae.

+2 letters: acceders, accretes, acerbest, acreages, amercers, ascender, breaches, caesurae, caperers, careless, caressed, caresser, caresses, casernes, cashmere, casimere, caterers, cateress, causerie, centares, cerastes, cervelas, cesarean, cheaters, cleaners, cleanser, clearers, clearest, cleavers, creamers, creasers, creasier, cremates, crevasse, decayers, deciares, declares, decrease, defacers, earaches, ecraseur, effacers, embraces, enchaser, escapers, escarole, escarped, exacters, gearcase, hectares, increase, leachers, machrees, marchese, menacers, peachers, percales, preaches, prefaces, racemose, reaccuse, reachers, reascend, reascent, recheats, reclames, recleans, recrates, reenacts, replaces, rescaled, rescales, research, respaced, respaces, retraces, sarcenet, screaked, screamed, screamer, searched, searcher, searches, secateur, surcease, teachers, terraces, treacles, wiseacre.