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Scrunch   /skrəntʃ/   Listen
Scrunch

verb
1.
Make a noise typical of an engine lacking lubricants.  Synonyms: crump, thud.
2.
Sit on one's heels.  Synonyms: crouch, hunker, hunker down, scrunch up, squat.  "The children hunkered down to protect themselves from the sandstorm"
3.
Make wrinkles or creases on a smooth surface; make a pressed, folded or wrinkled line in.  Synonyms: crease, crinkle, crisp, ruckle, scrunch up, wrinkle.  "Crease the paper like this to make a crane"






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"Scrunch" Quotes from Famous Books



... their attention. In such mortal terror as he never had experienced or imagined he quaked while he speculated as to whether the bear that first discovered him would disembowel him with one stroke of his mighty paw, and leave him, or would scrunch his head between his paws and sit down and ...
— The Dude Wrangler • Caroline Lockhart

... for, with its batteries, it was too heavy and too delicate to be carried conveniently, locking it up, and left the church, which she also locked behind her. Outside it was still snowing fast, but softly, for the wind had dropped, and a sharp frost was setting in, causing the fallen snow to scrunch beneath her feet. About half-way along the bleak line of deserted cliff which stretched from the Dead Church to the first houses of Monksland, she saw the figure of a man walking swiftly towards her, and knew from the bent head and broad, slightly ...
— Stella Fregelius • H. Rider Haggard



Words linked to "Scrunch" :   crackle, ruck, turn up, fold up, pucker, ruck up, cockle, sit down, fold, sit, crunch, crumple, scraunch, noise, scranch, knit, rumple



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