creases's Usage Examples:

'In some places the oblique Mongolian eye is noticed, and (together with certain Indo-Chinese customs) there is often a scantiness of beard and general "Malay" look, which increases westwards, and seems to imply relations with the archipelago subsequent to the departure thence of the pure Polynesians.

Manufacturers claim that replacing air particles with ozone particles (an actual pollutant) increases the quality of the air breathed.

In the typical form the stripes do not extend on to the limbs or tail; but there is a great variation in this respect, and as we proceed north the striping increases, till in the north-eastern E.

For the basis of such comparisons the country is divided by the census into five groups of states:It is only by careful investigation, by the method of comparisons, that these elements can be disentangled; but as the number of documents of this class known to us is continually increasing, their value increases even more than proportionately.

As wine drinking rises in acceptability, the use of wine charms also increases.

by the methods of the differential calculus or geometrically, that the deviation increases with the refractive index, the angle of incidence remaining constant.

Bird activity increases now as the numbers of our local birds are swelled by the arrival of the first redwings and fieldfares.

Solar panel installation saves money long-term, helps protect the environment from damage caused by air pollutants, conserves resources, and decreases dependence on utility companies.

The truly tropical flora of the hotter and wetter regions of eastern India is continuous with that of the Malayan peninsula and islands, and extends along the lower ranges of the Himalaya, gradually becoming less marked and rising to lower elevations as we go westward, where the rainfall diminishes and the winter cold increases.

emetic effect effectively increases the tolerance levels for toxicity in species which can regurgitate.

Everyone wins in trade, because goods are reallocated in a way that increases utility to all parties involved.

foetusage The risk of oral clefts increases threefold in fetuses exposed to corticosteroids during the first trimester.

Synonyms:

turn up, fold, pucker, crumple, knit, cockle, scrunch, ruckle, ruck up, rumple, fold up, crisp, crinkle, wrinkle, scrunch up, ruck,

Antonyms:

disintegrate, open, arrange, stay, unfold,