creasing

Meaning of creasing

verb, gerund or present participle
  1. make a crease in (cloth or paper).
    he sank into the chair, careful not to crease his dinner jacket
  2. burst out or cause to burst out laughing.
    Jo could imitate anybody and always made him crease up
  3. hit or punch (someone) hard.
    clap or I'll crease you
  4. (of a bullet) graze (someone or something).
    a bullet creased his thigh

late 16th century: probably a variant of crest.

Information about creasing

  • It is a verb.
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Hyphenation of creasing

creas-ing

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 8 chars.
  • creasing is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

creasing synonyms

Meaning crush (something, typically paper or cloth) so that it becomes creased and wrinkled:

crumple

Meaning form or become marked with lines or folds:

wrinkle

Meaning form into small surface creases or wrinkles:

crinkle

Meaning give a creased, ruffled, or dishevelled appearance to:

rumple

Meaning mark or cover with lines:

line

Meaning (especially with reference to a person's face) tightly gather or contract into wrinkles or small folds:

pucker

Meaning compress (something) into small folds or ridges:

crimp

Meaning draw and hold together (fabric or a part of a garment) by running thread through it:

gather

Meaning (with reference to the forehead or face) mark or be marked with lines or wrinkles caused by frowning, anxiety, or concentration:

furrow

Meaning another term for ruck2:

ruckle

Meaning move or cause to move into a position of contact with something by exerting continuous physical force:

press

Meaning smooth (clothes, sheets, etc.) with an iron:

iron

Meaning bend (something flexible and relatively flat) over on itself so that one part of it covers another:

fold

Meaning contract or cause to contract into wrinkles or folds:

corrugate

Meaning fold into pleats:

pleat

Meaning push, fold, or turn (the edges or ends of something, especially a garment or bedclothes) so as to hide or secure them:

tuck

creasing antonyms

Meaning move or cause to move into a position of contact with something by exerting continuous physical force:

press

Meaning crush (something, typically paper or cloth) so that it becomes creased and wrinkled:

crumple

Anagrams of creasing

Grecians, grecians, scirenga, searcing

Words that rhyme with creasing

sing, Christmasing, Dephasing, abasing, abrasing, aliasing, antialiasing, appeasing, basing, biasing, brainteasing, canvasing, carcasing, casing, ceasing, chasing, databasing, debasing, deceasing, decreasing, degreasing, dephasing, discasing, diseasing, displeasing, dyscrasing, easing, embasing, encasing, enchasing, encreasing, erasing, feasing, freebasing, goliasing, greasing, imbasing, impleasing, incasing, inchasing, increasing, interchasing, lasing, leasing, liasing, lowercasing, masing, measing, metaphrasing, misbiasing

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