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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of unpucker.

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Examples

  • He leaned forward for another "kiss," although his lips were dry, closed, and unpuckered.

    Analog Science Fiction and Fact 2004

  • Her lips puckered and unpuckered several times very fast, as if blowing a succession of kisses.

    Sir Apropos of Nothing PETER DAVID 2001

  • Her lips puckered and unpuckered several times very fast, as if blowing a succession of kisses.

    Sir Apropos of Nothing PETER DAVID 2001

  • Her lips puckered and unpuckered several times very fast, as if blowing a succession of kisses.

    Sir Apropos of Nothing PETER DAVID 2001

  • Now, as his doll-baby lashes commenced to flutter like those of a windup Jezebel; as his screw-top brow relaxed, assuming some of the placidity of cork; as his lips unpuckered and his violently blue orbs shifted focus, Painted Stick gave Spoon a nudge, Conch Shell gave her a blessing, and clink tink, she was suddenly through the grid and shooting down the sidewalk like a stubby silver arrow released from a toy bow.

    Skinny Legs and All Robbins, Tom 1990

  • Her eyes stared, unpuckered, apparently unconscious that they wept.

    McClure's Magazine, Vol 31, No 2, June 1908 Various

  • Donal shoemaker rose, unpuckered his face, slackened the purse-strings of his mouth, and said,

    What's Mine's Mine — Volume 3 George MacDonald 1864

  • Donal shoemaker rose, unpuckered his face, slackened the purse-strings of his mouth, and said,

    What's Mine's Mine — Complete George MacDonald 1864

  • Let but Teufelsdröckh open his mouth, Heuschrecke's also unpuckered itself into a free doorway, besides his being all eye and all ear, so that nothing might be lost: and then, at every pause in the harangue, he gurgled-out his pursy chuckle of a cough-laugh

    Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History Thomas Carlyle 1838

  • One of the hallmarks of fine sewing is a smooth, unpuckered seam.

    Gorgeous Fabrics' Blog 2009

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