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creased

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Adjective

(comparative more creased, superlative most creased)

Having a crease or creases.
You're not going out wearing that creased shirt, are you?

Verb

simple past tense and past participle of crease

creased

Variant of crease

noun

a line, mark, or ridge made by folding and pressing cloth, paper, etc.: the crease in trousers
a fold or wrinkle: creases in a jowl
Cricket any of the lines that mark off the station of the batsman or of the bowler
Hockey, Lacrosse an area marked off by lines in front of or around the goal cage, which cannot be entered by players on the offense except under certain conditions

Origin of crease

earlier creaste, literally , ridge ; from Middle English creste, crece, crest

transitive verb

creased, creasing

to fold and make a crease in
to wrinkle; muss
☆ to graze and injure slightly with a bullet

intransitive verb

to become creased

Related Forms:

creaser
noun
creasy
adjective

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While Paul was dressed in jeans and a golf shirt, brother Joseph—never "Joe"—sat stiffly in creased slacks and dress shirt.
The attorney quickly recovered and half slid, half ran down the slope next to his Jeep where they were standing, covering his shiny black shoes with dust in the process and nearly falling on the seat of his creased shorts.
It was on plain white notepaper, lined and firmly creased, written somewhat shakily with an ink pen, in the dainty script of a woman.
The guards were grim this night, their faces creased with worry.
Perhaps these have creased it, for you find some of their cases in the furrows, though they are deep and broad for them to make.

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