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scrunch

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of scrunch

1 to create (as by crushing) an irregular mass of creases in
  • scrunched up the shirt and tossed it in the laundry
Synonyms of scrunch

crinkle, crumple, rumple, wrinkle
Words Related to scrunch

corrugate, crease, crimp, fold, pleat, pucker, ruck

crisp, ripple, ruffle

contract, furrow, knit

mess (up), muss (up)
Near Antonyms of scrunch

even, iron, press, straighten

unfold

neaten, tidy
Antonyms of scrunch

flatten, iron out, smooth, smoothen, uncrumple
2 to lie low with the limbs close to the body
  • The climbers scrunched down on the leeward side of a large boulder and waited for the storm to pass.
Synonyms of scrunch

couch, crouch, huddle, hunch, hunker (down), squat, squinch
Words Related to scrunch

curl up
3 to press or strike against or together so as to make a scraping sound
  • scrunched loose gravel with every footstep
Synonyms of scrunch

crunch, gnash, grate, grind, grit, scrape
Words Related to scrunch

creak, groan, moan, rasp, scratch, whine

clash, collide, jangle, jar

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