MEANING
Shaped into a series of alternating parallel ridges and grooves.
Use it for
Repeated surface ridges and wave-shaped natural textures.Give a surface a regular raised-and-recessed pattern.
Words that belong together
- corrugated rock
- corrugated surface
- corrugated sand
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The exposed rock had a corrugated surface.
Low sunlight emphasized the corrugated sand left by the tide.
Her fingertips followed the corrugated bark of the old trunk.
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Word forms
- Base
- corrugated
Usage notes
Primary category: environment. Often used for manufactured material, but established descriptively for naturally ridged surfaces. Normally non-gradable as a pattern description; more deeply corrugated for degree. Participial adjective from corrugate.
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