Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to pucker
Participle: puckered
Gerund: puckering
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | pucker |
| you | pucker |
| he;she;it | puckers |
| we | pucker |
| you | pucker |
| they | pucker |
Perfect
| I | have puckered |
| you | have puckered |
| he;she;it | has puckered |
| we | have puckered |
| you | have puckered |
| they | have puckered |
Past
| I | puckered |
| you | puckered |
| he;she;it | puckered |
| we | puckered |
| you | puckered |
| they | puckered |
Pluperfect
| I | had puckered |
| you | had puckered |
| he;she;it | had puckered |
| we | had puckered |
| you | had puckered |
| they | had puckered |
Future
| I | will pucker |
| you | will pucker |
| he;she;it | will pucker |
| we | will pucker |
| you | will pucker |
| they | will pucker |
Future Perfect
| I | will have puckered |
| you | will have puckered |
| he;she;it | will have puckered |
| we | will have puckered |
| you | will have puckered |
| they | will have puckered |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | pucker |
| you | pucker |
| he;she;it | pucker |
| we | pucker |
| you | pucker |
| they | pucker |
Perfect
| I | have puckered |
| you | have puckered |
| he;she;it | have puckered |
| we | have puckered |
| you | have puckered |
| they | have puckered |
Imperfect
| I | puckered |
| you | puckered |
| he;she;it | puckered |
| we | puckered |
| you | puckered |
| they | puckered |
Pluperfect
| I | had puckered |
| you | had puckered |
| he;she;it | had puckered |
| we | had puckered |
| you | had puckered |
| they | had puckered |
Conditional
Present
| I | would pucker |
| you | would pucker |
| he;she;it | would pucker |
| we | would pucker |
| you | would pucker |
| they | would pucker |
Perfect
| I | would have puckered |
| you | would have puckered |
| he;she;it | would have puckered |
| we | would have puckered |
| you | would have puckered |
| they | would have puckered |
Imperative
| you | pucker |
| we | Let's pucker |
| you | pucker |
Verbs conjugated like 'pucker'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'pucker'
mucker,
sucker,
tucker,
bepucker,
bicker,
bucket,
buckler,
bunker,
cocker,
dicker,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- gather
- shirr, compress, crease, purse, squeeze, contract, wrinkle, condense
Antonyms
- gather
- distribute, disperse, disseminate, dispense
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. Origin obscure. Perhaps continuing Middle English pukkeren (“to hoard, save”, literally “to sack, stow away in a poke or bag”) with a change in meaning (compare purse (“to pucker”)).
2. Alternatively, perhaps a direct alteration of poke (verb, or the noun meaning "a small bag"). By surface analysis, poke + -er.
Sample Sentences
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Now the skin was puckered into a million wrinkles, and on the shapeless face was the stamp of unutterable age. [1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:]
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1893, Arthur Conan Doyle, "The Adventure of the Crooked Man".
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He had a very dark, fearsome face, and a gleam in his eyes that comes back to me in my dreams. His hair and whiskers were shot with gray, and his face was all crinkled and puckered like a withered apple.