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corrugate

[ verb kawr-uh-geyt, kor-; adjective kawr-uh-git, -geyt, kor- ]

verb (used with object)

corrugated, corrugating.
  1. to draw or bend into folds or alternate furrows and ridges.
  2. to wrinkle, as the skin or face.
  3. Western U.S. to make irrigation ditches in (a field).


verb (used without object)

corrugated, corrugating.
  1. to become corrugated; undergo corrugation.

adjective

  1. corrugated; wrinkled; furrowed.

corrugate

verb

  1. usually tr to fold or be folded into alternate furrows and ridges
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

adjective

  1. folded into furrows and ridges; wrinkled
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ˌǰˈپDz, noun
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Other yvlog Forms

  • ǰ··· adjective
  • ǰ···ٴǰ noun
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of corrugate1

First recorded in 1375–1425; late Middle English, from Latin ǰūٳܲ, past participle of ǰū, equivalent to cor- “with, together” + ū() “to wrinkle” + -ٳܲ past participle suffix; cor-, -ate 1
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of corrugate1

C18: from Latin ǰū, from ū a wrinkle
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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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In particular, there is a corrugated iron structure visible which can also be seen on satellite imagery captured on 30 October.

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On the night Cyclone Chido hit the French Indian Ocean territory of Mayotte, Zinedine was in his home, a small house made of corrugated iron and wood where he lives with eight of his relatives.

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A delegation of mainly elderly men, some with crutches, sit closer to the front under the shade of the corrugated metal roof and wide-boughed trees which frame an open wall.

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