- to draw or gather into wrinkles or irregular folds, as material or a part of the face; constrict: Worry puckered his brow.
- a wrinkle; an irregular fold.
- a puckered part, as of cloth tightly or crookedly sewn.
- a state of agitation or perturbation.
- to gather or contract (a soft surface such as the skin of the face) into wrinkles or folds, or (of such a surface) to be so gathered or contracted
- a wrinkle, crease, or irregular fold
