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To gather into small folds or wrinkles; to contract into ridges and furrows; to corrugate; -- often with up; as, to pucker up the mouth.

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  1. v. t. & i. To gather into small folds or wrinkles; to contract into ridges and furrows; to corrugate; -- often with up; as, to pucker up the mouth.
  2. n. A fold; a wrinkle; a collection of folds.
  3. n. A state of perplexity or anxiety; confusion; bother; agitation.
  4. n. an irregular fold in an otherwise even surface (as in cloth)
  5. v. to gather something into small wrinkles or folds
  6. v. draw together into folds or puckers
  7. v. become wrinkled or drawn together
  8. n:16/v:84 n. an irregular fold in an otherwise even surface (as in cloth) v. to gather something into small wrinkles or folds v. become wrinkled or drawn together