unwrinkle
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Theory’s new pants promise to repel water and dirt, wick away perspiration, quickly unwrinkle, stretch for comfort and cool the wearer down.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 11, 2016
San Francisco's family-owned Levi Strauss & Co., the behemoth of blue jeans, has a new wrinkle-or, rather, an unwrinkle.
From Time Magazine Archive
Even when he had sunk his mustaches in the dark surface of the mead, his brows did not unwrinkle.
From With Fire and Sword An Historical Novel of Poland and Russia. by Sienkiewicz, Henryk
Hence the Latin phrase, exporrigere frontem— to unwrinkle the brow—means, to be cheerful or merry.
From The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Darwin, Charles
The eyebrows and lashes had disappeared; the skin, grown hard, could not unwrinkle.
From Beatrix by Wormeley, Katharine Prescott
When Dodie commented on his unwrinkled, youthful-looking hands, he held up a finger and said, “Black don’t crack.”
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 2, 2019
They’re unwrinkled young men who began this decade playing football together for that 326-year-old football coaching conservatory, William & Mary.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 10, 2019
Many studies have focused on the goal of keeping skin looking youthful — plump, dewy, firm and unwrinkled.
From Nature ● Nov. 20, 2018
Instead, the impression that Baldwin has returned to preeminence, unbowed and unwrinkled, reflects his special ubiquity in the imagination of Black Lives Matter.
From Salon ● Jun. 25, 2017
So that everyone went to the tent and by paying one cent they saw a youthful Melquíades, recovered, unwrinkled, with a new and flashing set of teeth.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
When you pass out, you become cut off from your experience and the return feels like an unwrinkling of the senses.
From Salon ● Aug. 28, 2022
In his office, at home and on his travels, Mr. Bratton keeps with him a steamer for instant unwrinkling, Mr. Miller said.
From New York Times ● Aug. 5, 2016
Now they affected very light trousers and very broad collars and shoes and unwrinkling socks and cuffs that gleamed very white.
From Sinister Street, vol. 1 by MacKenzie, Compton
Mrs. Mutimer's face exhibited the dawning of intelligence, an unwrinkling here and there, a slight rounding of the lips.
From Demos by Gissing, George
Gingerly she lifted the cover and drew out two slips of paper folded, then unwrinkling them on her knee she looked down and gasped, while a wave of brighter crimson swept over her face.
From Peggy Parsons at Prep School by Sharp, Annabel
