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# pucker

«pucker» in Mova's school dictionary: **to wrinkle or gather up into small folds, especially the…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (puckers, puckered, puckering); noun (puckers)

### meaning for a pupil

To pucker is to wrinkle or gather up into small folds, especially the lips, the face or the brow. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pucker/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in tales, a face or brow folds into lines when a person is surprised, puzzled or thinking hard

### examples

- His face puckered in a whistle of surprise. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pucker/#x1)
- She puckered her lips before she spoke. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pucker/#x2)
- Her brow puckered as she tried to remember. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pucker/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «pucker» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pucker/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.