bewrinkle

present singular third person bewrinkles · participle present bewrinkling · participle past bewrinkled · past bewrinkled

1. transitiveTo make or put a wrinkle (or wrinkles) in; furrow; fill with wrinkles.

   Must I bewrinkle my brow, grow crow's feet under my eyes?

   1939, Teachers' Union of the City of New York, The New York teacher

   2 more examples

   … if I were to assert that it can either rend or write; the sneer of contempt would soon bewrinkle, or the stare of surprise would distort, the countenances of my readers.

   1821, The Kaleidoscope: or, Literary and scientific mirror

   The old lady did not immediately reply, her head dropped a little on one side, a broad smile bewrinkled the lower part of her well-worn visage; [...]

   1905, Elsie M. Wilbor, Steele MacKaye, Delsarte recitation book