pucker

v., -ered, -er·ing, -ers.

v.tr.
To gather into small wrinkles or folds: puckered my lips; puckered the curtains.

v.intr.
To become gathered, contracted, and wrinkled.

n.

1. A wrinkle or wrinkled part, as in tightly stitched cloth.
2. A facial expression in which the lips are tightly pulled together and pushed outward.
3. A tart flavor that causes one's lips to pucker: the pucker of lemon.

[Probably frequentative of dialectal pock, bag, sack, variant of POKE³.]

noun

A line or an arrangement made by the doubling of one part over another: crease, crimp, crinkle, crumple, fold, pleat, plica, plication, rimple, ruck², rumple, wrinkle. See smooth/rough.

n

Definition: wrinkle
Antonyms: smoothness

v

Definition: draw together; wrinkle
Antonyms: open, smooth

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The noun has one meaning:

Meaning #1: an irregular fold in an otherwise even surface (as in cloth)
  Synonym: ruck

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The verb pucker has 3 meanings:

Meaning #1: to gather something into small wrinkles or folds
  Synonyms: rumple, cockle, crumple, knit

Meaning #2: draw fabric together and sew it tightly
  Synonyms: gather, tuck

Meaning #3: become puckered
  Synonyms: ruck, ruck up

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Dansk (Danish)
v. tr. - rynke
v. intr. - blive rynket, rynke
n. - rynke

Nederlands (Dutch)
rimpel

Français (French)
v. tr. - froncer, avancer (les lèvres), plisser (le front)
v. intr. - se plisser, goder, avancer
n. - ride

Deutsch (German)
n. - Falte
v. - runzeln, fälteln

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - ζάρα, σούρα, σούφρα, (καθομ.) έξαψη, αναστάτωση
v. - ζαρώνω, σουφρώνω

Italiano (Italian)
grinza, aggrottare

Português (Portuguese)
n. - prega (f), franzido (m)
v. - preguear, franzir

Русский (Russian)
складка, морщина, морщиться

Español (Spanish)
v. tr. - arrugar, fruncir
v. intr. - formar arrugas o frunces
n. - arruga, frunce

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - veck, rynka, rynkning
v. - vecka, rynka, snörpa, pluta

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
使起皱, 折叠, 使缩拢, 皱起, 缩拢, 皱纹

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
v. tr. - 使起皺, 折疊, 使縮攏
v. intr. - 皺起, 折疊, 縮攏
n. - 皺紋

한국어 (Korean)
v. tr. - 주름을 잡다, 주름 살지게 하다
v. intr. - 주름 잡히다
n. - 주름, 주름살

日本語 (Japanese)
v. - しわにする, …にひだを付ける, すぼめる, しかめる
n. - しわ, ひだ

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) تجاعيد, تجعد (فعل) زم ( شفتيه), جعد (الشعر)‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮קמט‬
v. tr. - ‮קימט, קיפל‬
v. intr. - ‮התקמט‬

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