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scrunch

[skruhnch, skroonch] / skrʌntʃ, skrʊntʃ /
VERB
crumple
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Antonyms
STRONG
expand uncompress


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You cook them really quickly in a pan with butter and then scrunch them, which allows for the maple-soy butter to pool in all the little pockets.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 11, 2026

My face would scrunch up and I’d shudder from the intense flavors, but I never cried.

From Salon • Sep. 13, 2025

Soft, or flexible, plastic - the kind you can scrunch up in your hand - includes everything from shopping bags to clingfilm.

From BBC • Dec. 11, 2021

Small amounts of the DNA didn’t appear to affect the cells, but larger amounts caused them to scrunch up, suggesting they were responding to the stimulus.

From Science Magazine • Oct. 19, 2021

Biddy scrunch her eyebrows up a little tighter.

From "Girls Like Us" by Gail Giles




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