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scrunch

[skruhnch, skroonch] / skrʌntʃ, skrʊntʃ /
VERB
crumple
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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

Since the mid-1960s, microscopists have seen that axons can scrunch up to form beads when they are diseased or under other stress.

From Science Magazine • Dec. 2, 2024

A good way to check if wrapping paper is recyclable, according to Wrap, is the "scrunch test".

From BBC • Dec. 3, 2022

It’s fine for Mum and Dad to scrunch up any promise they make to me and flush it down the bog and why?

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell