as in creases
to pull the sides of (something, such as skin or cloth) together so that folds or wrinkles are formed
puckered the fabric before adding stitches
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This Little Unicorn beach blanket folds up to just 15 inches long and weighs only 3 pounds.—
Olivia Bria,
Travel + Leisure,
3 Feb. 2025 -
For most of the runtime, Walker-Silverman’s film is almost so conflict-averse as to be unseasonably gentle, but eventually, Dusty finally folds under the burden of his grief.—
Fran Hoepfner,
Vulture,
27 Jan. 2025
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“Puckers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/puckers. Accessed 2 May. 2025.
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