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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Corrugate \Cor"ru*gate\ (-g?t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Corrugated}
     (-g?`t?d); p. pr. & vb. n. {Corrugating} (-g?`t?ng).]
     To form or shape into wrinkles or folds, or alternate ridges
     and grooves, as by drawing, contraction, pressure, bending,
     or otherwise; to wrinkle; to purse up; as, to corrugate
     plates of iron; to corrugate the forehead.


     [1913 Webster]
  
     {Corrugated iron}, sheet iron bent into a series of alternate
        ridges and grooves in parallel lines, giving it greater
        stiffness.
  
     {Corrugated paper}, a thick, coarse paper corrugated in order
        to give it elasticity. It is used as a wrapping material
        for fragile articles, as bottles.
        [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  corrugated \corrugated\ adj.
     shaped into parallel folds alternately grooved and ridged;
     as, the surface of the ocean was rippled and corrugated.
     [WordNet 1.5]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  corrugated
       adj : shaped into alternating parallel grooves and ridges; "the
             surface of the ocean was rippled and corrugated"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  112 Moby Thesaurus words for "corrugated":
     broken, bumpy, canaliculate, canaliculated, chamfered, channeled,
     choppy, coarse, coarse-grained, cockled, cockly, corduroy,
     corduroyed, corrugate, costate, cragged, craggy, creased, crimped,
     crimpy, crinkled, crinkly, cross-grained, crumpled, cut, dadoed,
     engraved, fluted, furrowed, gashed, goffered, gouged, grainy,
     granulated, gravelly, grooved, harsh, homespun, horripilant,
     incised, inequal, ironbound, irregular, jagged, jaggy, jolty,
     knitted, knotted, linsey-woolsey, pimply, pitted, pleated, pocky,
     potholed, puckered, puckery, pursed, pursy, rabbeted, ragged, rank,
     ribbed, ridged, rifled, rimpled, rippled, ripply, rockbound, rocky,
     rough, rough-cast, rough-grained, rough-hewn, rucked, ruffled,
     rugged, rugose, rugous, rumpled, rutted, rutty, saw-toothed,
     sawtooth, scored, scragged, scraggly, scraggy, scratched, serrate,
     serrated, shagged, shaggy, slit, snagged, snaggled, snaggy, stony,
     striated, sulcate, sulcated, textured, troughed, uneven, unkempt,
     unlevel, unpolished, unrefined, unsmooth, ununiform, wimpled,
     wrinkled, wrinkly
  
  

















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