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wrine

wrine noun: a deep wrinkle.

Noun

wrine (plural wrines)

  1. (obsolete) A deep wrinkle.

Forms of wrine

pluralwrines
alternative formwry

Origin of wrine

Alteration (due to wrinkle) of earlier rine (“ditch, trench”), from Middle English rune, rone, from Old English ryne (“a watercourse, flow”), from rinnan (“to run”). More at run, runnel.

Questions about wrine

What does wrine mean?
Wrine means a deep wrinkle.
What part of speech is wrine?
Wrine is a noun.
What is the plural of wrine?
The plural of wrine is wrines.

Words near wrine in the dictionary

  1. wrimples
  2. wrinch
  3. wrinched
  4. wrinches
  5. wrinching
  6. wrine
  7. Wrinehill
  8. wrines
  9. wring
  10. wring out
  11. wring out one's sock

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