Synonyms for scrunch
Definitions
- v. 1
To crumple and squeeze to make more compact.
He scrunched the paper into a ball and threw it at the whistling girl.
- v. 2
To crumple and squeeze to make more compact. To contract the muscles of one's face so as to draw their facial features together, out of pain, discomfort, uncertainty, etc.
He scrunched his face at his wife's confounding request.
Related words
- Word family
- scrunchie
- Phrases
- scrunch up
- Other spellings
- scranch scraunch
Forms
- Past participle
- scrunched
e.g. scrunched → crinkled, wrinkled, creased, crunched…
Example sentences
- crunch The recession has put the crunch on wage laborers.
- crease Fold and unfold along each of the lines to make a crease.
- wrinkle With her foot she smoothed a wrinkle in the throw rug.
- crinkle I hate the sound that cellophane makes when you crinkle it.
- squat Tom started doing squat thrusts in the waiting room.
- crouch You need to crouch to reach the book under the sofa.
By length
- 4 letters
- thud1
- 5 letters
- crisp1, squat1, crump1
- 6 letters
- crunch1, crease1, crouch1, hunker2, ruckle2
- 7 letters
- wrinkle2, crackle2, crinkle, scrooch
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (hunker2 = 2 syllables).