different between unwrinkled vs unwrinkle

English

Etymology

From un- +? wrinkled.

Adjective

unwrinkled (comparative more unwrinkled, superlative most unwrinkled)

1. Without wrinkles.
   • 1649, Leonard Willan (translator), The Phrygian Fabulist or, The Fables of Æsop, London: Nicolas Bourn, 101. “The Shipwrackct Shepherd,” p. 84,^[1]

     Emtie escaping, home return’d again;

     A few daies after to the same place came:

     Where hee beheld the Sea’s unwrinkled face,

     Smile again on him with alluring Grace.

   • 1832, William Wordsworth, “The Gleaner (Suggested by a picture)” in The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longman, Volume 3, p. 253,^[2]

     Where pity, to the mind conveyed

     In pleasure, is the darkest shade

     That Time, unwrinkled grandsire, flings

     From his smoothly gliding wings.

   • 1939, John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath, Pengin, 1992, Chapter Six, p. 61,^[3]

     Muley’s face was smooth and unwrinkled, but it wore the truculent look of a bad child’s, the mouth held tight and small, the little eyes half scowling, half petulant.

   • 1953, C. S. Forester, Hornblower and the Atropos, London: Michael Joseph, Chapter 9,^[4]

     The lieutenant of the watch, his telescope quite dazzling with polished brass and pipe-clayed twine, wore spotless and unwrinkled white trousers; the buttons on his well-fitting coat winked in the sunshine.

   Synonyms: wrinkle-free, wrinkleless

Translations

Verb

unwrinkled

1. simple past tense and past participle of unwrinkle

English

Etymology

un- +? wrinkle

Verb

unwrinkle (third-person singular simple present unwrinkles, present participle unwrinkling, simple past and past participle unwrinkled)

1. (transitive) To remove wrinkles from.
   • 1935, Elizabeth Bowen, The House in Paris, New York: Vintage, 1957, Part Two, p. 140,^[1]

     He and she sat side by side like two wax people while the waiter stretched across to unwrinkle the tablecloth and straighten the knives.

   • 2000, Gary Soto, Nickel and Dime, Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, Part 2, p. 85,^[2]

     The job was done before Silver could unwrinkle the grimace on his face.

2. (intransitive) To stop being wrinkly; to become flat or smooth.
   • 1959, Mervyn Peake, Titus Alone, New York: Ballantine, 1968, Chapter 66, p. 179,^[3]

     His head protruded out of his torn collar much as the head of the tortoise protrudes from its shell, the throat unwrinkling, the eyes like beads, or pips of jet.

   • 1987, Derek Walcott, “Cul de Sac Valley” in The Arkansas Testament, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, p. 11,^[4]

     In a rain barrel, water

     unwrinkles to glass;

     a lime tree’s daughter

     there studies her face.

   • 1996, Charles Mathes, The Girl Who Remembered Snow, New York: St. Martin’s Press, Chapter 15, p. 212,^[5]

     Emma went through the closet and removed the black gabardine jacket she had hung up to unwrinkle.

Translations

Synonyms

• (remove wrinkles from): flatten out, smooth