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Puckering
- verb - become wrinkled or drawn together; "her lips puckered"
- draw together into folds or puckers
- to gather something into small wrinkles or folds; "She puckered her lips"
Puddening
- - A quantity of rope-yarn, or the like, placed, as a fender, on the bow of a boat. (b) A bunch of soft material to prevent chafing between spars, or the like.
Pulsating
- verb - expand and contract rhythmically; beat rhythmically; "The baby's heart was pulsating again after the surgeon massaged it"
- move with or as if with a regular alternating motion; "the city pulsated with music and excitement"
- produce or modulate (as electromagnetic waves) in the form of short bursts or pulses or cause an apparatus to produce pulses; "pulse waves"; "a transmitter pulsed by an electronic tube"
Pummeling
- verb - strike, usually with the fist; "The pedestrians pummeled the demonstrators"
- To punch severely
Punch Bag
- noun - an inflated ball or bag that is suspended and punched for training in boxing
Pungapung
- noun - putrid-smelling aroid of southeastern Asia (especially the Philippines) grown for its edible tuber
Punishing
- verb - characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort; "worked their arduous way up the mining valley"; "a grueling campaign"; "hard labor"; "heavy work"; "heavy going"; "spent many laborious hours on the project"; "set a punishing pace"
- impose a penalty on; inflict punishment on; "The students were penalized for showing up late for class"; "we had to punish the dog for soiling the floor again"
- resulting in punishment; "the king imposed a punishing tax"
Purifying
- verb - acting like an antiseptic
- become clean or pure or free of guilt and sin; "The hippies came to the ashram in order to purify"
- freeing from noxious matter; "filtration is a purifying agent"
- make pure or free from sin or guilt; "he left the monastery purified"
- making something free of dirt or harmful substances
- remove impurities from, increase the concentration of, and separate through the process of distillation; "purify the water"
- serving to purge or rid of sin; "purgatorial rites"
Purposing
- verb - propose or intend;
- reach a decision; "he resolved never to drink again"
Purveying
- verb - supply with provisions