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Synonyms for puckered

The synonym for puckered recorded in this bank is wrinkled, in the sense "drawn together into small tight folds or wrinkles". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.

1 synonym · Tier 1, Foothills · 1 sense · adjective · 1 reason line

The synonym for puckered

wrinkledadjective, in the sense "drawn together into small tight folds or wrinkles"

A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for puckered.

The senseadjectiveTier 1, FoothillsShapes

drawn together into small tight folds or wrinkles

The seam was puckered, drawn into small tight folds where the thread had been pulled too taut.

The context the game gives you. The gloss above is for readers here, not for players there.

The true synonym

wrinkled

Same sentence, swapped: The seam was wrinkled, drawn into small tight folds where the thread had been pulled too taut.

Close but different

The game shows these three beside the answer. Each is a real word with a real meaning and none of them fits the slot puckered is in above, which is the point the reason line makes.

frayed
unraveled
stitched

Where puckered turns up in the game

puckered is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 1, Foothills. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.

Play puckered

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so puckered reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.

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amorphousadjectiveshapelesswithout a clearly defined shape or formFoothillsHas a reason line contortverbtwistto twist or bend something out of its normal shapeFoothillsHas a reason line contournounoutlinethe outline or shape of something, especially a curved edge or surfaceFoothillsHas a reason line cuboidnounblocka solid shaped like a rectangular box, with six flat rectangular facesFoothillsHas a reason line tortuousadjectivewindingmarked by repeated turns and bendsHigh CampHas a reason line towernouncolumnanything that approximates the shape of a column or towerTreelineHas a reason line warpverbbuckleto bend or twist out of a flat or true shapeTreelineHas a reason line tieverbdrawfinish a game with an equal number of points, goals, etc.Foothills2 senses

Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here

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