Scrunch
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English
Verb
Scrunch (third-person singular simple present scrunches, present participle scrunching, simple past and past participle scrunched)
- To crumple and squeeze to make more compact.
- He scrunched the paper into a ball and threw it at the whistling girl.
See also
Noun
Scrunch (plural scrunches)- A crunching noise.
Thesaurus
abrade, atomize, beat, belch, blare, blat, bray, brecciate, burr, buzz, cackle, caw, champ, chaw, chew, chirr, chomp, chump, clang, clangor, clank, clash, comminute, contriturate, craunch, crimp, crimple, crinkle, croak, crumb, crumble, crump, crunch, crush, disintegrate, flour, fragment, grain, granulate, granulize, grate, grind, grind to powder, groan, growl, grumble, jangle, jar, levigate, mash, masticate, mill, munch, pestle, pound, powder, pulverize, rasp, reduce to powder, rimple, ruckle, ruminate, rumple, scranch, scrape, scratch, screw, shard, shred, smash, snarl, snore, squash, triturate, twang, wrinkle
Etymology
onomatopoeia, from the sound of crumpling a piece of paper
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ʌntʃ
