crease

1. 1.

   an angular or rounded shape made by folding

   “a fold in the napkin”

   “a crease in his trousers”

   “a plication on her blouse”

   “a flexure of the colon”

   “a bend of his elbow”

   Synonymsfoldplicationflexurecrimpbend

   Broaderangular shape

   Narrowerpleatkinkpucker
2. 2.

   a slight depression or fold in the smoothness of a surface

   “his face has many lines”

   “ironing gets rid of most wrinkles”

   Synonymswrinklefurrowcrinkleseamline

   Broaderdepression

   Narrowercrow's footdermatoglyphicfrown line
3. 3.

   a Malayan dagger with a wavy blade

   Synonymskriscreese

   Broaderdagger

Other forms of crease

plural

creases·

past tense

creased·

present participle

creasing·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about crease

What does crease mean?

crease means "make wrinkles or creases on a smooth surface; make a pressed, folded or wrinkled line in; `crisp' is archaic". That is the primary sense; the word has 7 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in crease?

crease has 1 syllable: crease. In IPA it is /ˈkɹis/.

What is another word for crease?

Close synonyms include wrinkle, ruckle, crinkle, scrunch, scrunch up. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is crease a common word?

crease is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with crease?

2 words rhyme with crease. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.