pucker

pucker
    n 1: an irregular fold in an otherwise even surface (as in
         cloth) [syn: {pucker}, {ruck}]
    v 1: to gather something into small wrinkles or folds; "She
         puckered her lips" [syn: {pucker}, {rumple}, {cockle},
         {crumple}, {knit}]
    2: draw together into folds or puckers [syn: {gather}, {pucker},
       {tuck}]
    3: become wrinkled or drawn together; "her lips puckered" [syn:
       {pucker}, {ruck}, {ruck up}]
    

Pucker \Puck"er\, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. {Puckered}; p. pr. &
   vb. n. {Puckering}.] [From {Poke} a pocket, small bag.]
   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 [was] puckered up in
   wrinkles." --Spectator.
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Pucker \Puck"er\, n.
   1. A fold; a wrinkle; a collection of folds.
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   2. A state of perplexity or anxiety; confusion; bother;
      agitation. [Prov. Eng. & Colloq. U. S.]
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152 Moby Thesaurus words for "pucker":
      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,
      circumscribe, cloud, coarct, cocker, cockle, compact, compress,
      concentrate, concern, concernment, condense, confusion,
      consolidate, constrict, constringe, contract, corrugate,
      corrugation, cramp, crankle, crease, crimp, crimple, crinkle,
      crinkling, crumple, curtail, daze, decrease, discombobulation,
      discomfiture, discomposure, disconcertion, disorder,
      disorganization, disorientation, disquiet, disquietude, distress,
      disturbance, dither, draw, draw in, draw together, dread,
      embarrassment, fear, flap, flummox, flurry, fluster, flusteration,
      flustration, flutter, fog, fold, foofaraw, foreboding,
      forebodingness, frenzy, fret, fuddle, fuddlement, furrow, fuss,
      gather, haze, inquietude, jumble, knit, knot, lather, malaise,
      maze, mess, misgiving, mist, muddle, muddlement, narrow,
      nervous strain, nervous tension, nervousness, overanxiety,
      perplexity, perturbation, pins and needles, pleat, pother,
      pucker up, purse, reduce, ridge, rimple, ripple, rivel, ruche,
      ruck, ruckle, ruffle, rumple, screw up, shirr, shirring, shorten,
      shuffle, solicitude, solidify, squeeze, stew, strain, strangle,
      strangulate, suspense, sweat, swivet, tension, tighten, tizzy,
      trouble, tuck, twitter, twitteration, uneasiness, unquietness,
      unsettlement, upset, vexation, wimple, wrinkle, wrinkling, zeal