Noun

• S: (n) bag, handbag, pocketbook, purse (a container used for carrying money and small personal items or accessories (especially by women)) "she reached into her bag and found a comb"
• S: (n) purse (a sum of money spoken of as the contents of a money purse) "he made the contribution out of his own purse"; "he and his wife shared a common purse"
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• S: (n) sum, sum of money, amount, amount of money (a quantity of money) "he borrowed a large sum"; "the amount he had in cash was insufficient"
• S: (n) assets (anything of material value or usefulness that is owned by a person or company)
• S: (n) possession (anything owned or possessed)
• S: (n) relation (an abstraction belonging to or characteristic of two entities or parts together)
• S: (n) abstraction, abstract entity (a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples)
• S: (n) entity (that which is perceived or known or inferred to have its own distinct existence (living or nonliving))
• S: (n) purse (a small bag for carrying money)
• S: (n) purse (a sum of money offered as a prize) "the purse barely covered the winner's expenses"

Verb

• S: (v) purse (contract one's lips into a rounded shape)
• S: (v) purse, wrinkle (gather or contract into wrinkles or folds; pucker) "purse ones's lips"
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• S: (v) contract (make smaller) "The heat contracted the woollen garment"
• S: (v) shrink, reduce (reduce in size; reduce physically) "Hot water will shrink the sweater"; "Can you shrink this image?"
• S: (v) decrease, lessen, minify (make smaller) "He decreased his staff"
• S: (v) change, alter, modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation) "The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city"; "The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue"
• derivationally related form
• sentence frame