Usually means: Form or cause to wrinkle.
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  1. rugate: Merriam-Webster
  2. rugate: Collins English Dictionary
  3. rugate: Wordnik
  4. rugate: Wiktionary
  5. rugate: Infoplease Dictionary
  6. Rugate, rugate: Dictionary.com
  7. Rugate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  8. rugate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  9. Rugate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. rugate: FreeDictionary.org
  11. rugate: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  12. Rugate: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. rugate: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (rugate)

▸ adjective:  Having alternate ridges and depressions; wrinkled.
▸ adjective:  Having a varying refractive index.

Similar:
rugose, rugous, rimpled, ruckly, rugulose, ridged, wrinkled, rumpled, crinkly, rimose, more...

Opposite:
smooth, flat, even

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Similar:
rugose, rugous, rimpled, ruckly, rugulose, ridged, wrinkled, rumpled, crinkly, rimose, more...

Opposite:
smooth, flat, even



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