Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary - scrunch
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Scrunch
scrunch
I. verb Etymology: alteration of 1crunch Date: circa 1790 transitive verb 1. crunch, crush 2. a. to draw or squeeze together tightly b. crumple — often used with up c. to cause (as one's features) to draw together — usually used with up intransitive verb 1. to move with or make a crunching sound 2. crouch, hunch; also squeeze II. noun Date: 1857 a crunching sound
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v. & n. --v.tr. & intr. 1 (usu. foll. by up) make or become crushed or crumpled. 2 make or cause to make a crunching sound. --n. the act or an instance of scrunching. Etymology: var. of CRUNCH ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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(scrunches, scrunching, scrunched) If you scrunch something, you squeeze it or bend it so that it is no longer in its natural shape and is often crushed. Her father scrunched his nose... Her mother was sitting bolt upright, scrunching her white cotton gloves into a ball. VERB: V n, V n into n; PHRASAL VERB • Scrunch up means the same as scrunch. She scrunched up three pages of notes and threw them in the bin... I scrunched my hat up in my pocket. V P n (not pron), V n P ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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~ v informal if stones or other objects scrunch under your feet, they make a noisy sound when you walk on them (The pebbles scrunched as we walked along the beach.) scrunch sth up phr v to crush and twist something into a small round shape (I scrunched up the letter and threw it in the bin.) ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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