Synonyms of the word

pucker

• v. To pinch or wrinkle; to squeeze inwardly, to dimple or fold.
• n. A fold or wrinkle.
• n. A state of perplexity or anxiety; confusion; bother; agitation.

bend

• v. (transitive) To cause (something) to change its shape into a curve, by physical force, chemical action,…
• v. (intransitive) To become curved.
• v. (transitive) To cause to change direction.
• v. (intransitive) To change direction.
• v. (intransitive) To be inclined; to direct itself.
• v. (intransitive, usually with "down") To stoop.
• v. (intransitive) To bow in prayer, or in token of submission.
• v. (transitive) To force to submit.
• v. (intransitive) To submit.
• v. (transitive) To apply to a task or purpose.
• v. (intransitive) To apply oneself to a task or purpose.
• v. (transitive) To adapt or interpret to for a purpose or beneficiary.
• v. (transitive, nautical) To tie, as in securing a line to a cleat; to shackle a chain to an anchor; make…
• v. (transitive, music) To smoothly change the pitch of a note.
• v. (intransitive, nautical) To swing the body when rowing.
• n. A curve.
• n. Any of the various knots which join the ends of two lines.
• n. (in the plural, medicine, diving, with the) A severe condition caused by excessively quick decompression,…
• n. (heraldry) One of the honourable ordinaries formed by two diagonal lines drawn from the dexter chief to…
• n. (obsolete) Turn; purpose; inclination; ends.
• n. In the leather trade, the best quality of sole leather; a butt.
• n. (mining) Hard, indurated clay; bind.
• n. (nautical, in the plural) The thickest and strongest planks in a ship's sides, more generally called wales,…
• n. (nautical, in the plural) The frames or ribs that form the ship's body from the keel to the top of the…
• n. (music) A glissando, or glide between one pitch and another.

cockle

• n. Any of various edible European bivalve mollusks, of the family Cardiidae, having heart-shaped shells.
• n. The shell of such a mollusk.
• n. (in the plural) One’s innermost feelings (only in the expression “the cockles of one’s heart”).
• n. (directly from French coquille) A wrinkle, pucker.
• n. (by extension) A defect in sheepskin; firm dark nodules caused by the bites of keds on live sheep.
• n. (mining, Britain, Cornwall) The mineral black tourmaline or schorl.
• n. (Britain) The fire chamber of a furnace.
• n. (Britain) A kiln for drying hops; an oast.
• n. (Britain) The dome of a heating furnace.
• v. To cause to contract into wrinkles or ridges, as some kinds of cloth after a wetting; to pucker.
• n. Any of several field weeds, such as the corncockle, Agrostemma githago, and Lolium temulentum.

crease

• n. A line or mark made by folding or doubling any pliable substance; hence, a similar mark, however produced.
• n. (cricket) One of the white lines drawn on the pitch to show different areas of play; especially the popping…
• n. (lacrosse) The circle around the goal, where no offensive players can go.
• n. (ice hockey, handball) The goal crease; an area in front of each goal.
• v. (transitive) To make a crease in; to wrinkle.
• v. (transitive) To lightly bloody; to graze.
• n. Archaic form of kris.

crimp

• adj. (obsolete) Easily crumbled; friable; brittle.
• adj. (obsolete) Weak; inconsistent; contradictory.
• n. A fastener or a fastening method that secures parts by bending metal around a joint and squeezing it together,…
• n. (obsolete, Britain, dialect) A coal broker.
• n. (obsolete) One who decoys or entraps men into the military or naval service.
• n. (obsolete) A keeper of a low lodging house where sailors and emigrants are entrapped and fleeced.
• n. (usually in the plural) A hairstyle which has been crimped, or shaped so it bends back and forth in many…
• n. (obsolete) A card game.
• v. To fasten by bending metal so that it squeezes around the parts to be fastened.
• v. To pinch and hold; to seize.
• v. To style hair into a crimp.
• v. To join the edges of food products.
• n. An agent who procures seamen, soldiers, etc., especially by seducing, decoying, entrapping, or impressing…
• n. (specifically, law) One who infringes sub-section 1 of the Merchant Shipping Act of 1854, applied to a…
• v. (transitive) To impress (seamen or soldiers); to entrap, to decoy.

crinkle

• v. (transitive, intransitive) To fold, crease, crumple, or wad.
• v. (intransitive) To rustle, as stiff cloth when moved.
• n. A wrinkle, fold, crease, or unevenness.

crisp

• adj. (of something seen or heard) Sharp, clearly defined.
• adj. Brittle; friable; in a condition to break with a short, sharp fracture.
• adj. Possessing a certain degree of firmness and freshness.
• adj. (of weather, air etc.) Dry and cold.
• adj. (of movement, action etc.) Quick and accurate.
• adj. (of talk, text, etc.) Brief and to the point.
• adj. (of wine) having a refreshing amount of acidity; having less acidity than green wine, but more than a…
• adj. (obsolete) Lively; sparking; effervescing.
• adj. (dated) Curling in stiff curls or ringlets.
• adj. (obsolete) Curled by the ripple of water.
• adj. (computing theory) Not using fuzzy logic; based on a binary distinction between true and false.
• n. (Britain) A thin slice of fried potato eaten as a snack.
• v. (transitive) To make crisp.
• v. (intransitive) To become crisp.
• v. (transitive, dated) To curl; to form into ringlets, for example hair, or the nap of cloth.
• v. (transitive, dated) to interweave, like the branches of trees.
• v. (intransitive, archaic) To undulate or ripple.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To cause to undulate irregularly, as crape or water; to wrinkle; to cause to ripple.

crumple

• n. A crease, wrinkle, or irregular fold.
• v. (transitive) To rumple; to press into wrinkles by crushing together.
• v. (transitive) To cause to collapse.
• v. (intransitive) To become wrinkled.
• v. (intransitive, figuratively) To collapse.

flexure

• n. The act of bending or flexing; flexion.
• n. A turn; a bend; a fold; a curve.
• n. (anatomy) A curve or bend in a tubular organ.
• n. (zoology) The last joint, or bend, of the wing of a bird.
• n. (astronomy) The small distortion of an astronomical instrument caused by the weight of its parts; the…

fold

• v. (transitive) To bend (any thin material, such as paper) over so that it comes in contact with itself.
• v. (transitive) To make the proper arrangement (in a thin material) by bending.
• v. (intransitive) To become folded; to form folds.
• v. (intransitive, informal) To fall over; to be crushed.
• v. (transitive) To enclose within folded arms (see also enfold).
• v. (intransitive) To give way on a point or in an argument.
• v. (intransitive, poker) To withdraw from betting.
• v. (intransitive, by extension) To withdraw or quit in general.
• v. (transitive, cooking) To stir gently, with a folding action.
• v. (intransitive, business) Of a company, to cease to trade.
• v. To double or lay together, as the arms or the hands.
• v. To cover or wrap up; to conceal.
• n. An act of folding.
• n. A bend or crease.
• n. Any correct move in origami.
• n. (newspapers) The division between the top and bottom halves of a broadsheet: headlines above the fold…
• n. (by extension, web design) The division between the part of a web page visible in a web browser window…
• n. That which is folded together, or which enfolds or envelops; embrace.
• n. A group of sheep or goats.
• n. A group of people who adhere to a common faith and habitually attend a given church.
• n. A group of people with shared ideas or goals or who live or work together.
• n. (geology) The bending or curving of one or a stack of originally flat and planar surfaces, such as sedimentary…
• n. (computing, programming) In functional programming, any of a family of higher-order functions that process…
• n. A pen or enclosure for sheep or other domestic animals.
• n. (figuratively) Home, family.
• n. (religion, Christian) A church congregation, a church, the Christian church as a whole, the flock of Christ.
• n. (obsolete) A boundary or limit.
• v. To confine sheep in a fold.
• n. (dialectal, poetic or obsolete) The Earth; earth; land, country.

gather

• v. To collect; normally separate things.
• v. To bring parts of a whole closer.
• v. To infer or conclude; to know from a different source.
• v. (intransitive, medicine, of a boil or sore) To be filled with pus.
• v. (glassblowing) To collect molten glass on the end of a tool.
• v. To gain; to win.
• n. A plait or fold in cloth, made by drawing a thread through it; a pucker.
• n. The inclination forward of the axle journals to keep the wheels from working outward.
• n. The soffit or under surface of the masonry required in gathering. See gather (transitive verb).
• n. (glassblowing) A blob of molten glass collected on the end of a blowpipe.

knit

• v. (transitive, intransitive) To turn thread or yarn into a piece of fabric by forming loops that are pulled…
• v. (figuratively, transitive) To join closely and firmly together.
• v. (intransitive) To become closely and firmly joined; become compacted.
• v. (intransitive) To grow together.
• v. (transitive) To combine from various elements.
• v. (intransitive) Of bones: to heal following a fracture.
• v. (transitive) To form into a knot, or into knots; to tie together, as cord; to fasten by tying.
• v. (transitive) To draw together; to contract into wrinkles.
• n. A knitted garment.

plication

• n. (now chiefly biology, geology) An act of folding.
• n. (now chiefly biology, geology) A fold or pleat.
• n. (medicine) A surgical procedure in which a body part is strengthened or shortened by pulling together…

ruck

• n. A throng or crowd of people or things; a mass, a pack.
• n. (Australian Rules Football) Contesting a bounce or ball up; used appositionally in "ruck contest". Rucks…
• n. (rugby union) The situation formed when a runner is brought to ground and one or more members of each…
• n. The common mass of people or things; the ordinary ranks.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To act as a ruckman in a stoppage in Australian Rules football.
• v. (transitive) To contest the possession of the ball in a game of Rugby.
• v. (transitive) To crease or fold.
• v. (intransitive) To become folded.
• n. A crease, a wrinkle, a pucker, as on fabric.
• v. (Britain, dialect, obsolete) To cower or huddle together; to squat; to sit, as a hen on eggs.
• n. Obsolete form of roc.
• n. (slang, especially military) A rucksack; a large backpack.
• v. To carry a backpack while hiking or marching.

ruckle

• v. To crease or wrinkle.
• n. A disordered collection.
• n. A wrinkle.

rumple

• v. To make wrinkled, particularly of fabric.
• v. To muss.
• v. To tousle.

scrunch

• v. To crumple and squeeze to make more compact.
• n. A crunching noise.

sew

• v. (transitive) To use a needle to pass thread repeatedly through (pieces of fabric) in order to join them…
• v. (intransitive) To use a needle to pass thread repeatedly through pieces of fabric in order to join them…
• v. (transitive) To enclose by sewing.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To drain the water from.
• v. (nautical) Of a ship, to be grounded.

stitch

• n. A single pass of a needle in sewing; the loop or turn of the thread thus made.
• n. An arrangement of stitches in sewing, or method of stitching in some particular way or style.
• n. (sports) An intense stabbing pain under the lower edge of the ribcage, caused by internal organs pulling…
• n. A single turn of the thread round a needle in knitting; a link, or loop, of yarn.
• n. An arrangement of stitches in knitting, or method of knitting in some particular way or style.
• n. A space of work taken up, or gone over, in a single pass of the needle.
• n. Hence, by extension, any space passed over; distance.
• n. A local sharp pain; an acute pain, like the piercing of a needle.
• n. (obsolete) A contortion, or twist.
• n. (colloquial) Any least part of a fabric or dress.
• n. A furrow.
• v. To form stitches in; especially, to sew in such a manner as to show on the surface a continuous line of…
• v. To sew, or unite or attach by stitches.
• v. (agriculture) To form land into ridges.
• v. (intransitive) To practice/practise stitching or needlework.
• v. (computing, graphics) To combine two or more photographs of the same scene into a single image.

tuck

• v. (transitive) To pull or gather up (an item of fabric).
• v. (transitive) To push into a snug position; to place somewhere safe or somewhat hidden.
• v. (intransitive, often with "in" or "into") To eat; to consume.
• v. (ergative) To fit neatly.
• v. To curl into a ball; to fold up and hold one's legs.
• v. To sew folds; to make a tuck or tucks in.
• v. To full, as cloth.
• v. (LGBT, of a drag queen, trans woman, etc.) To conceal one’s genitals, as with a gaff or by fastening them…
• v. (when playing scales on piano keys) To keep the thumb in position while moving the rest of the hand over…
• n. An act of tucking; a pleat or fold.
• n. (sewing) A fold in fabric that has been stitched in place from end to end, as to reduce the overall dimension…
• n. A curled position.
• n. (medicine, surgery) A plastic surgery technique to remove excess skin.
• n. (music, piano, when playing scales on piano keys) The act of keeping the thumb in position while moving…
• n. (diving) A curled position, with the shins held towards the body.
• n. (archaic) A rapier, a sword.
• n. The beat of a drum.
• n. Food, especially snack food.

wrinkle

• n. A small furrow, ridge or crease in an otherwise smooth surface.
• n. A line or crease in the skin, especially when caused by age or fatigue.
• n. A fault, imperfection or bug especially in a new system or product; typically, they will need to be ironed…
• n. (dated) A notion or fancy; a whim.
• v. (transitive) To make wrinkles in; to cause to have wrinkles.
• v. (intransitive) To pucker or become uneven or irregular.
• v. (intransitive, of skin) To develop irreversibly wrinkles; to age.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To sneer (at).
• n. (US, dialect) A winkle.