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Pucker

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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Verb group 2

Draw 84% connected

To cause to move continuously by force applied in advance of the thing moved; to pull along; to haul; to drag; to cause to follow.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Draw 84% connected

To cause to move continuously by force applied in advance of the thing moved; to pull along; to haul; to drag; to cause to follow.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Bend 76% connected

To strain or move out of a straight line; to crook by straining; to make crooked; to curve; to make ready for use by drawing into a curve; as, to ben…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Crease 76% connected

See Creese.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Crimp 76% connected

To fold or plait in regular undulation in such a way that the material will retain the shape intended; to give a wavy appearance to; as, to crimp the…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Crinkle 76% connected

To form with short turns, bends, or wrinkles; to mold into inequalities or sinuosities; to cause to wrinkle or curl.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Crisp 76% connected

Curling in stiff curls or ringlets; as, crisp hair.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Flexure 76% connected

The act of flexing or bending; a turning or curving; flexion; hence, obsequious bowing or bending.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Fold 76% connected

To lap or lay in plaits or folds; to lay one part over another part of; to double; as, to fold cloth; to fold a letter.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Plication 76% connected

A folding or fold; a plait.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Scrunch 76% connected

To scranch; to crunch.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Sew 76% connected

Juice; gravy; a seasoned dish; a delicacy.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Stitch 76% connected

A single pass of a needle in sewing; the loop or turn of the thread thus made.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Wrinkle 76% connected

A winkle.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Synonym 7

Cockle 92% connected

A bivalve mollusk, with radiating ribs, of the genus Cardium, especially C. edule, used in Europe for food; -- sometimes applied to similar shells of…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Crumple 92% connected

To draw or press into wrinkles or folds; to crush together; to rumple; as, to crumple paper.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Gather 92% connected

To bring together; to collect, as a number of separate things, into one place, or into one aggregate body; to assemble; to muster; to congregate.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Knit 92% connected

of Knit

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Ruck 92% connected

A roc.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Rumple 92% connected

To make uneven; to form into irregular inequalities; to wrinkle; to crumple; as, to rumple an apron or a cravat.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Tuck 92% connected

A long, narrow sword; a rapier.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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