👕 To smooth fabric 🧩 To solve issues

to unwrinkle

1 6.3

To make a plan simpler by removing problems

verb
/ʌnˈrɪŋkəl/

: desenredar

Let's unwrinkle this issue before it escalates.

Examples

Before launching the project, the team worked hard to unwrinkle any potential issues.
She managed to unwrinkle the confusing schedule so everyone could understand it.
The consultant was hired to unwrinkle the company's complicated procedures.
He has unwrinkled the plan successfully.
The manager worked hard to unwrinkle the issues in the project plan before the deadline.
She held a meeting to unwrinkle the team's concerns about the new policy.
Their discussion aimed to unwrinkle the misunderstandings that had arisen during the negotiations.

Synonyms

to smooth out

vsto unwrinkle

33 3.4

Make a process or problem easier by removing difficulties

focuses on simplifying plans as a whole rather than easing process steps

to untangle

vsto unwrinkle

12 4.9

To free someone from a difficult or confusing situation

simplifies plans by removing complications and making them easier to manage

to unsnarl

vsto unwrinkle

1 7.6

To free something from a tangle, like knots in rope or wire

is used to simplify plans generally rather than free items from a tangle

Antonyms

to complicate

136 4.1

To make something harder to understand or do

to entangle

4 6.3

Involve someone in a difficult situation they cannot easily get out of

How Simple

to streamline

42 4.1

to untangle

12 4.9

to unwrinkle

1 6.3

to simplify

104 2.5

to clarify

255 3.3

Surface Forms

unwrinkle infinitive

unwrinkled past

unwrinkled past participle

unwrinkling present participle

unwrinkles third person singular

Morphology

unwrinkle = wrinkle (semi-transparent) = un + wrinkle

A figurative extension from removing physical creases to removing complications; the relation is clear but requires metaphorical inference.

Etymology

Unwrinkle is also used for plans or problems and still breaks into un- 'reverse' and wrinkle 'a fold or difficulty'. A helpful way to remember it is to imagine smoothing a creased shirt, so to unwrinkle a plan is to make it simple and easy.