MEANING
To form small, tight folds or wrinkles, or make something do this.
Use it for
Words that belong together
- pucker one's lips
- fabric puckers
On the page
The seam puckered where she had pulled the thread too hard.
Nearby words
Word forms
- Base
- pucker
- Past tense
- puckered
- Past participle
- puckered
- Present participle
- puckering
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- pucker
- Present continuous
- am/is/are puckering
- Present perfect
- have/has puckered
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been puckering
- Past
- puckered
- Past continuous
- was/were puckering
- Past perfect
- had puckered
- Past perfect continuous
- had been puckering
- Future
- will pucker
- Future continuous
- will be puckering
- Future perfect
- will have puckered
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been puckering
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
Usage notes
Primary category: literary / elevated general. Forms: pucker; puckers; puckered; puckered; puckering Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Commonness: moderately common. Third-person singular: puckers.
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