'Puckering' definitions:
Definition of 'Puckering'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'puckering'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abbreviation,
- astriction,
- astringency,
- bottleneck,
- cervix,
- circumscription,
- coarctation,
- compactedness,
- compaction,
- compression,
- compressure,
- concentration,
- condensation,
- consolidation,
- constriction,
- constringency,
- contraction,
- contracture,
- curtailment,
- decrease,
- diminuendo,
- hourglass,
- hourglass figure,
- isthmus,
- knitting,
- narrow place,
- narrowing,
- neck,
- pursing,
- reduction,
- shortening,
- solidification,
- stranglement,
- strangulation,
- striction,
- stricture,
- systole,
- wasp waist,
- wrinkling