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# pucker

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

«pucker» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

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

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

### Note

nothing for maths

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «pucker» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pucker/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«pucker» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/pucker.html) on Mova free.