24 June 2019
corrugate
[ verb kawr-uh-geyt, kor-; adjective kawr-uh-git, -geyt, kor- ]
verb (used with object), cor·ru·gat·ed, cor·ru·gat·ing.
to draw or bend into folds or alternate furrows and ridges.
to wrinkle, as the skin or face.
Western U.S. to make irrigation ditches in (a field).
verb (used without object), cor·ru·gat·ed, cor·ru·gat·ing.
to become corrugated; undergo corrugation.
adjective
corrugated; wrinkled; furrowed.
ORIGIN OF CORRUGATE
1375–1425; late Middle English; Latin corrūgātus past participle of corrūgāre, equivalent to cor- cor- + rūg(āre) to wrinkle + -ātus -ate1
RELATED FORMS
cor·ru·gat·ed, adjective
cor·ru·ga·tor, noun
un·cor·ru·gat·ed, adjective
EXAMPLES FROM THE WEB FOR CORRUGATE
However, “broad-browed Verulam,” let not that brow’s breadth cloud or corrugate in vexation at my persiflage.
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI, VOLUME 93, DECEMBER 31, 1887|VARIOUS
Yet we had watched his smooth brow furrow and corrugate as under some carking care or devouring sorrow.
MOON-FACE AND OTHER STORIES|JACK LONDON
Flutes, 72 four inches deep, corrugate the beast’s underpart from tail to neck.
SEVEN LEGS ACROSS THE SEAS|SAMUEL MURRAY
Today’s quote
Labour was the first price, the original purchase – money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased.
– Adam Smith
On this day
24 June 1950 – The Korean War begins as North Korean forces invade South Korea in response to the dividing of the Korean Peninsula by Allied forces after World War II. The US sends troops as part of the UN response to repel North Korea. In 1953 a demilitarised zone is established between North and South Korea. Although conflict ended in 1953 following a truce, both sides have remained on military alert ever since. Political posturing and a number of border clashes in the years since 1953 have brought the peninsula to the brink of war on numerous occasions.
24 June 1997 – the United States Air Force releases a report into the so-called ‘Roswell Incident’ in which there had been claims that an alien craft had crashed near Roswell, New Mexico, and the body of an alien was retrieved by the Air Force. The USAF report claimed that the bodies witnesses had seen were actually life-sized dummies.
24 June 2010 – Julia Gillard is appointed Australia’s first female prime minister after replacing Kevin Rudd in a leadership spill. On 26 June 2013, following ongoing ructions in the Labor Party, Gillard called another leadership ballot which was won by Kevin Rudd. Julia Gillard tendered her resignation, which took effect the following day when Rudd was sworn in as prime minister.