Word Meanings - PUCKER - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To gather into small folds or wrinkles; to contract into ridges and furrows; to corrugate; -- often with up; as, to pucker up the mouth. "His skin puckered up in wrinkles." Spectator.
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- ROUGHEN
To make rough. (more info) Etym: - RUMPLED
Wrinkled; crumpled. Pope. - DERANGER
One who deranges. - DERANGEMENT
The act of deranging or putting out of order, or the state of being deranged; disarrangement; disorder; confusion; especially, mental disorder; insanity. Syn. -- Disorder; confusion; embarrassment; irregularity; disturbance; insanity; - DERANGED
Disordered; especially, disordered in mind; crazy; insane. The story of a poor deranged parish lad. Lamb. - RUFFLEMENT
The act of ruffling. - CREASE
See TENNISON - PUCKER
1. A fold; a wrinkle; a collection of folds. 2. A state of perplexity or anxiety; confusion; bother; agitation. - RUFFLER
1. One who ruffles; a swaggerer; a bully; a ruffian. Assaults, if not murders, done at his own doors by that crew of rufflers. Milton. 2. That which ruffles; specifically, a sewing machine attachment for making ruffles. - DERANGE
1. To put out of place, order, or rank; to disturb the proper arrangement or order of; to throw into disorder, confusion, or embarrassment; to disorder; to disarrange; as, to derange the plans of a commander, or the affairs of a nation. - RUMPLESS
Destitute of a rump. - WRINKLE
1. To contract into furrows and prominences; to make a wrinkle or wrinkles in; to corrugate; as, wrinkle the skin or the brow. "Sport that wrinkled Care derides." Milton. Her wrinkled form in black and white arrayed. Pope. 2. Hence, to make rough - CREASER
A tool for making the band impression distinct on the back. Knight. (more info) 1. A tool, or a sewing-mashine attachment, for making lines or creases on leather or cloth, as guides to sew by. 2. A tool for making creases or beads, as in sheet - CORRUGATE
Wrinkled; crumpled; furrowed; contracted into ridges and furrows. - RUFFLE
To beat with the ruff or ruffle, as a drum. 6. To discompose; to agitate; to disturb. These ruffle the tranquillity of the mind. Sir W. Hamilton. But, ever after, the small violence done Rankled in him and ruffled all his heart. Tennyson. 7. To - RUFFLELESS
Having no ruffle. - CRUMPLE
To draw or press into wrinkles or folds to crush together; to rumple; as, to crumple paper. They crumpled it into all shapes, and diligently scanned every wrinkle that could be made. Addison. - PUCKERY
1. Producing, or tending to produce, a pucker; as, a puckery taste. Lowell. 2. Inclined to become puckered or wrinkled; full of puckers or wrinkles. - PUCKERER
One who, or that which, puckers. - RUMPLE
A fold or plait; a wrinkle. Dryden. - REINCREASE
To increase again. - TRUFFLE
Any one of several kinds of roundish, subterranean fungi, usually of a blackish color. The French truffle and the English truffle are much esteemed as articles of food. Truffle worm , the larva of a fly of the genus Leiodes, injurious - INCREASEMENT
Increase. Bacon. - UNRUMPLE
To free from rumples; to spread or lay even, - DECREASELESS
Suffering no decrease. It flows and flows, and yet will flow, Volume decreaseless to the final hour. A. Seward. - UNPUCKER
To smooth away the puckers or wrinkles of.