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.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PUCKER)

• Rumple
• Ruffle
• wrinkle
• crease
• crumple
• pucker
• corrugate
• derange
• roughen

Related words: (words related to PUCKER)

• 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.