"unwrinkle" meaning in English

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          "text": "The job was done before Silver could unwrinkle the grimace on his face.",
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        "(transitive) To remove wrinkles from."
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          "sense": "to remove wrinkles from",
          "word": "glätten"
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          "sense": "to remove wrinkles from",
          "word": "desenrugar"
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          "text": "His head protruded out of his torn collar much as the head of the tortoise protrudes from its shell, the throat unwrinkling, the eyes like beads, or pips of jet.",
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          "ref": "1987, Derek Walcott, “Cul de Sac Valley”, in The Arkansas Testament, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, page 11:",
          "text": "In a rain barrel, water\nunwrinkles to glass;\na lime tree’s daughter\nthere studies her face.",
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          "text": "Emma went through the closet and removed the black gabardine jacket she had hung up to unwrinkle.",
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      "sense": "to remove wrinkles from",
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