corrugated

[ kawr-uh-gey-tid, kor- ]

adjective

1. shaped into wavy folds or alternating furrows and ridges:

   Drops of rain hammered on the corrugated metal roof.

   Your cat can use the toy’s corrugated cardboard center as a scratching mat.

verb

1. the simple past tense and past participle of corrugate.

Other Words From

• un·cor·ru·gat·ed adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of corrugated¹

First recorded in 1585–95; corrugate ( def ) + -ed ²( def ) for the adjective; corrugate ( def ) + -ed ¹( def ) for the verb

Example Sentences

You’ll need corrugated boxes in various sizes, unless you’re using boxes provided by your carrier.

From Washington Post

Inside, mismatched plastic trays sat carefully stacked on industrial metal shelves, stretching all the way from the concrete floor to the corrugated-steel ceiling.

From MIT Technology Review

Rather, it can be made from “wood, corrugated metal, polycarbonate plastic, and standard framing hardware,” which allows for the cabins to be prototyped immediately and relatively cost-effectively at scale.

From Fortune

The dugout was covered with semi-circular sheets of corrugated iron, forming a vaulted roof.

From The Daily Beast

At the same time parts of the corrugated iron roof collapsed.

From The Daily Beast

Since the Nehers departed, the school got a corrugated iron roof and there is now a real road into the town.

From The Daily Beast

It ran into a corrugated tin sheet boundary and a large genip tree.

From The Daily Beast

There were trees and electrical poles strewn across the road and corrugated iron roofing that had been ripped off houses.

From The Daily Beast

Its shores were long stretches of mud-flats, corrugated everywhere with thousands of clam-holes.

From Project Gutenberg

And the parson went to live in the town, beside his church—in a corrugated iron house that was run up for him.

From Project Gutenberg

The corrugated iron roofs were dazzlingly white and smooth—two or three inches of snow in every groove.

From Project Gutenberg

The house was a rough, square, one-storeyed building, roofed over with corrugated iron.

From Project Gutenberg

A corrugated iron roof had saved it, they said, although there was a good clearing on either side of the shanty.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• crumpled