CORRUGATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does corrugate mean? 

• CORRUGATE (verb)
  The verb CORRUGATE has 1 sense:

1. fold into ridges

  Familiarity information: CORRUGATE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CORRUGATE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they corrugate    ... he / she / it corrugates   
Past simple: corrugated   
Past participle: corrugated   
-ing form: corrugating   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Fold into ridges

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Context example:

corrugate iron

Hypernyms (to "corrugate" is one way to...):

fold; fold up; turn up (bend or lay so that one part covers the other)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

corrugation (the act of shaping into parallel ridges and grooves)

corrugation (a ridge on a corrugated surface)

 Context examples 

The lesion consists of a white patch that is often corrugated or hairy.

(Hairy Leukoplakia of Tongue, NCI Thesaurus)

A small gust of wind that scarcely corrugated the surface was enough to disturb its accidental course with its accidental burden.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)

After the house, we were to see the grounds and the swimming pool, and the hydroplane and the midsummer flowers—but outside Gatsby's window it began to rain again so we stood in a row looking at the corrugated surface of the Sound.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)