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corrugate
[kawr-uh-geyt, kor-, kawr-uh-git, -geyt, kor-]
verb (used with object)
to draw or bend into folds or alternate furrows and ridges.
to wrinkle, as the skin or face.
Western U.S.to make irrigation ditches in (a field).
verb (used without object)
to become corrugated; undergo corrugation.
adjective
corrugated; wrinkled; furrowed.
corrugate
verb
(usually tr) to fold or be folded into alternate furrows and ridges
adjective
folded into furrows and ridges; wrinkled
Other Word Forms
- corrugated adjective
- corrugator noun
- ˌǰˈپDz noun
Word History and Origins
Origin of corrugate1
Word History and Origins
Origin of corrugate1
Example Sentences
The performance consists of Tolokonnikova sitting at a bare wooden table inside of a corrugated steel structure resembling a Russian prison cell.
Joshlin grew up in a corrugated iron structure located in Middelpos informal settlement with her mother, her mother's partner, her brother and younger half-sister.
That is what brings him to the street of pulverised houses and makeshift shelters of canvas and corrugated iron.
Sheets of corrugated iron hang over narrow shop doorways, and children rattle along on donkeys between the market stalls.
On Friday morning, he saw his corrugated iron carport being lifted out of the ground and tipped into an area of woodland.
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