purse
/pɚs/ verb C2- To press (one's lips) in and together so that they protrude.
- To draw up or contract into folds or wrinkles; to pucker; to knit.
- To put into a purse.
He/she/it purses · Past pursed · Past participle pursed · -ing form pursing
Verb forms
- Base form
- purse
- He/she/it
- purses
- Past
- pursed
- Past participle
- pursed
- -ing form
- pursing
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Gardener's garters, Shepherd's purse,
Diana pursed up her lips, put her black head on one side critically, and finally pronounced in favor of the beads, which were thereupon tied around Anne’s slim milk-white throat.
The word is applied to many a woman who deserves it no otherwise than by netting a purse or covering a screen; but I am very far from agreeing with you in your estimation of ladies in general.
He was bemoaning himself this morning because he could not get someone to go halves with him in some nice rooms which he had found, and which were too much for his purse.”
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