All dog-ear synonyms

verb dog-ear

• fold — to confine (sheep or other domestic animals) in a fold.
• crinkle — If something crinkles or if you crinkle it, it becomes slightly creased or folded.
• wrinkle — an ingenious trick or device; a clever innovation: a new advertising wrinkle.
• pucker — a wrinkle; an irregular fold.
• pleat — a fold of definite, even width made by doubling cloth or the like upon itself and pressing or stitching it in place.
• curl — If you have curls, your hair is in the form of tight curves and spirals.
• knit — to make (a garment, fabric, etc.) by interlocking loops of one or more yarns either by hand with knitting needles or by machine.
• tuck — to put into a small, close, or concealing place: Tuck the money into your wallet.
• ridge — a long, narrow elevation of land; a chain of hills or mountains.
• purse — a woman's handbag or pocketbook.
• cockle — Cockles are small edible shellfish.
• plait — a braid, especially of hair or straw.
• bend — When you bend, you move the top part of your body downwards and forwards. Plants and trees also bend.
• crimp — If you crimp something such as a piece of fabric or pastry, you make small folds in it.
• crumple — If you crumple something such as paper or cloth, or if it crumples, it is squashed and becomes full of untidy creases and folds.
• corrugate — to fold or be folded into alternate furrows and ridges
• intertwine — Twist or twine together.
• overlay — to lie over or upon, as a covering or stratum.
• overlap — to lap over (something else or each other); extend over and cover a part of; imbricate.
• ruck — a fold or wrinkle; crease.
• replicate — Also, replicated. folded; bent back on itself.
• hem — to fold back and sew down the edge of (cloth, a garment, etc.); form an edge or border on or around.
• ruffle — to beat (a drum) in this manner.
• lap — the act of lapping liquid.
• furrow — a narrow groove made in the ground, especially by a plow.
• crisp — Food that is crisp is pleasantly hard, or has a pleasantly hard surface.
• double — twice as large, heavy, strong, etc.; twofold in size, amount, number, extent, etc.: a double portion; a new house double the size of the old one.
• gather — to bring together into one group, collection, or place: to gather firewood; to gather the troops.
• groove — a long, narrow cut or indentation in a surface, as the cut in a board to receive the tongue of another board (tongue-and-groove joint) a furrow, or a natural indentation on an organism.
• plicate — Also, plicated. folded like a fan; pleated.
• telescope — an optical instrument for making distant objects appear larger and therefore nearer. One of the two principal forms (refracting telescope) consists essentially of an objective lens set into one end of a tube and an adjustable eyepiece or combination of lenses set into the other end of a tube that slides into the first and through which the enlarged object is viewed directly; the other form (reflecting telescope) has a concave mirror that gathers light from the object and focuses it into an adjustable eyepiece or combination of lenses through which the reflection of the object is enlarged and viewed. Compare radio telescope.
• screw up — a metal fastener having a tapered shank with a helical thread, and topped with a slotted head, driven into wood or the like by rotating, especially by means of a screwdriver.
• double up — twice as large, heavy, strong, etc.; twofold in size, amount, number, extent, etc.: a double portion; a new house double the size of the old one.
• ruche — a strip of pleated lace, net, muslin, or other material for trimming or finishing a dress, as at the collar or sleeves.