scrunch

The goal should not be to terrify the bejesus out of the public, lest they scrunch their noses and give up.

She heard his stealthy pads scrunch on the snow the other side of the wall, and then he found the hole.

Behind him there was the scrunch, the grinding roar, of the long line of steel wheels carrying the runaway spoil train.

Then suddenly there was a rush and a roar and a yell of voices--and the scrunch of swiftly applied brakes.

They went on like ghostly, silent shadows, only the scrunch of the cones underfoot told of their solidity.

Aspinall obeyed, and next moment was writhing under the “scrunch” which the president in his humour bestowed upon it.