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pucker

noun

1 pucker

An irregular fold in an otherwise even surface (as in cloth).

synonym: ruck.

Roget 258: fold, plicature, plait, pleat, ply, crease; tuck, gather; flexion, flexure, joint, elbow, double, doubling, ... show more

Roget 900: resentment, displeasure, animosity, anger, wrath, indignation; exasperation, bitter resentment, wrathful indignation.    pique, umbrage, huff, miff, ... show more

verb

1 pucker

To gather something into small wrinkles or folds:
— She puckered her lips.

synonyms: cockle, crumple, knit, rumple.

Roget 258: fold, double, plicate, plait, crease, wrinkle, crinkle, crankle, curl, cockle up, cocker, rimple, rumple, flute, ... show more

Dutch: kreukelen, kreuken, verfomfaaien, verkreukelen

2 pucker

Draw together into folds or puckers.

synonyms: gather, tuck.

3 pucker

Become wrinkled or drawn together:
— Her lips puckered.

synonyms: ruck, ruck up.


Moby thesaurus: abbreviate, agitation, all-overs, angst, anxiety, anxiety hysteria, anxiety neurosis, anxious bench, anxious concern, anxious seat, anxiousness, apprehension, apprehensiveness, befuddlement, bewilderment, bother, botheration, cankerworm of care, care, chaos ... show more.

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puckered

Moby thesaurus: clamped, cockled, cockly, compressed, concentrated, condensed, consolidated, constricted, contracted, corrugate, corrugated, cramped, creased, crimped, crimpy, crinkled, crinkly, crumpled, furrowed, knitted ... show more.

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