Usually means: Drawing together into a smaller circumference.
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  1. pursing: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. pursing: Collins English Dictionary
  3. pursing: Vocabulary.com
  4. Pursing, pursing: Wordnik
  5. pursing: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. pursing: Wiktionary
  7. Pursing, pursing: Dictionary.com
  8. pursing: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Pursing: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. Pursing: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. pursing: Free Dictionary
  12. pursing: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pursing: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pursing: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (pursing)

▸ noun:  An expression or motion that purses.

Similar:
pocketbook, handbag, bag, wrinkle, pursse, chase, pouncing, prowling, scurrying, prance, more...

Opposite:
retracting, withdrawing, letting go, releasing

Types:
clutch, wristlet, crossbody, satchel, tote, hobo, shoulder bag, more...

Phrases:
pursing lips, more...

Adjectives:
slight, lip, worth, much, little, grim, quick, constant, voluntary, serious, good

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Similar:
pocketbook, handbag, bag, wrinkle, pursse, chase, pouncing, prowling, scurrying, prance, more...

Opposite:
retracting, withdrawing, letting go, releasing

Types:
clutch, wristlet, crossbody, satchel, tote, hobo, shoulder bag, more...

Phrases:
pursing lips, more...

Adjectives:
slight, lip, worth, much, little, grim, quick, constant, voluntary, serious, good



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