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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.

 

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