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corrugated

[kawr-uh-gey-tid, kor-]

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adjective

shaped into wavy folds or alternating furrows and ridges.
Drops of rain hammered on the corrugated metal roof.
Your cat can use the toy’s corrugated cardboard center as a scratching mat.

verb

the simple past tense and past participle of corrugate.

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Other Word Forms

uncorrugated adjective

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Word History and Origins

Origin of corrugated¹

First recorded in 1585–95; corrugate ( def. ) + -ed ² ( def. ) for the adjective; corrugate ( def. ) + -ed ¹ ( def. ) for the verb

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The performance consists of Tolokonnikova sitting at a bare wooden table inside of a corrugated steel structure resembling a Russian prison cell.

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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.

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That is what brings him to the street of pulverised houses and makeshift shelters of canvas and corrugated iron.

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Sheets of corrugated iron hang over narrow shop doorways, and children rattle along on donkeys between the market stalls.

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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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crumpled��

corrugate corrugated iron

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