| besprinkle | (verb) scatter with liquid; wet lightly | Synonyms: sparge, sprinkle |
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| crinkle | (noun) a slight depression or fold in the smoothness of a surface | Synonyms: crease, furrow, line, seam, wrinkle |
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| (verb) become wrinkled or crumpled or creased | Synonyms: crease, crumple, rumple, wrinkle |
| (verb) make wrinkles or creases on a smooth surface; make a pressed, folded or wrinkled line in; `crisp' is archaic | Synonyms: crease, crisp, ruckle, scrunch, scrunch up, wrinkle |
| crinkled | (adjective) uneven by virtue of having wrinkles or waves | Synonyms: crinkly, rippled, wavelike, wavy |
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| crinkleroot | (noun) North American herb with pungent scaly or toothed roots | Synonyms: Cardamine diphylla, crinkle-root, crinkle root, Dentaria diphylla, pepper root, toothwort |
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| crinkly | (adjective) uneven by virtue of having wrinkles or waves | Synonyms: crinkled, rippled, wavelike, wavy |
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| inkle | (noun) a linen tape used for trimming as a decoration | - |
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| inkling | (noun) a slight suggestion or vague understanding | Synonyms: glimmer, glimmering, intimation |
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| periwinkle | (noun) edible marine gastropod | Synonyms: winkle |
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| (noun) small edible marine snail; steamed in wine or baked | Synonyms: winkle |
| (noun) chiefly trailing poisonous plants with blue flowers | - |
| (noun) commonly cultivated Old World woody herb having large pinkish to red flowers | Synonyms: Cape periwinkle, Catharanthus roseus, cayenne jasmine, Madagascar periwinkle, old maid, red periwinkle, rose periwinkle, Vinca rosea |
| sprinkle | (noun) the act of sprinkling or splashing water | Synonyms: sparge, sprinkling |
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| (noun) a light shower that falls in some locations and not others nearby | Synonyms: scattering, sprinkling |
| (verb) scatter with liquid; wet lightly | Synonyms: besprinkle, sparge |
| (verb) cause (a liquid) to spatter about, especially with force | Synonyms: splash, splosh |
| (verb) distribute loosely | Synonyms: disperse, dot, dust, scatter |
| (verb) rain gently | Synonyms: patter, pitter-patter, spatter, spit |
| sprinkler | (noun) mechanical device that attaches to a garden hose for watering lawn or garden | - |
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| sprinkles | (noun) bits of sweet chocolate used as a topping on e.g. ice cream | Synonyms: jimmies |
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| sprinkling | (noun) the act of sprinkling water in baptism (rare) | Synonyms: aspersion |
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| (noun) the act of sprinkling or splashing water | Synonyms: sparge, sprinkle |
| (noun) a light shower that falls in some locations and not others nearby | Synonyms: scattering, sprinkle |
| (noun) a small number (of something) dispersed haphazardly | Synonyms: scattering |
| tinkle | (noun) a light clear metallic sound as of a small bell | Synonyms: ting |
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| (verb) make or emit a high sound | Synonyms: chink, clink, tink |
| tinkling | (adjective) like the short high ringing sound of a small bell | Synonyms: tinkly |
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| tinkly | (adjective) like the short high ringing sound of a small bell | Synonyms: tinkling |
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| twinkle | (noun) merriment expressed by a brightness or gleam or animation of countenance | Synonyms: light, spark, sparkle |
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| (noun) a rapid change in brightness; a brief spark or flash | Synonyms: scintillation, sparkling |
| (verb) gleam or glow intermittently | Synonyms: blink, flash, wink, winkle |
| (verb) emit or reflect light in a flickering manner | Synonyms: scintillate, winkle |
| twinkler | (noun) an object that emits or reflects light in an intermittent flickering manner | - |
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| twinkling | (adjective) shining intermittently with a sparkling light | - |
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| (noun) a very short time (as the time it takes the eye to blink or the heart to beat) | Synonyms: blink of an eye, flash, heartbeat, instant, jiffy, New York minute, split second, trice, wink |
| twinkly | (adjective) smiling with happiness or optimism | Synonyms: beamish, smiling |
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| unwrinkled | (adjective) not wrinkled or creased | Synonyms: wrinkleless |
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| winkle | (noun) edible marine gastropod | Synonyms: periwinkle |
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| (noun) small edible marine snail; steamed in wine or baked | Synonyms: periwinkle |
| (verb) remove or displace from a position | Synonyms: winkle out |
| (verb) gleam or glow intermittently | Synonyms: blink, flash, twinkle, wink |
| (verb) emit or reflect light in a flickering manner | Synonyms: scintillate, twinkle |
| wrinkle | (noun) a clever method of doing something (especially something new and different) | - |
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| (noun) a minor difficulty | - |
| (noun) a slight depression or fold in the smoothness of a surface | Synonyms: crease, crinkle, furrow, line, seam |
| (verb) become wrinkled or crumpled or creased | Synonyms: crease, crinkle, crumple, rumple |
| (verb) make wrinkles or creases on a smooth surface; make a pressed, folded or wrinkled line in; `crisp' is archaic | Synonyms: crease, crinkle, crisp, ruckle, scrunch, scrunch up |
| (verb) gather or contract into wrinkles or folds; pucker | Synonyms: purse |
| (verb) make wrinkled or creased | Synonyms: crease, furrow |
| wrinkled | (adjective) marked by wrinkles | Synonyms: wrinkly |
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| (adjective) (of linens or clothes) not ironed | Synonyms: unironed |
| wrinkleless | (adjective) not wrinkled or creased | Synonyms: unwrinkled |
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| wrinkleproof | (adjective) of fabric that does not wrinkle easily | Synonyms: crease-resistant, creaseproof, wrinkle-resistant |
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| wrinkly | (adjective) marked by wrinkles | Synonyms: wrinkled |
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