つぼめる

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of つぼめる – see the following entry.

[verb] to narrow something, to scrunch something up:

[verb] to shut or fold (an umbrella)

[verb] to shrug (one's shoulders)

[verb] to pucker or purse (one's lips)

(This term, つぼめる (tsubomeru), is the hiragana spelling of the above term.)