SCRUNCH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does scrunch mean? 

• SCRUNCH (noun)
  The noun SCRUNCH has 1 sense:

1. a crunching noise

  Familiarity information: SCRUNCH used as a noun is very rare.

• SCRUNCH (verb)
  The verb SCRUNCH has 3 senses:

1. make a noise typical of an engine lacking lubricants

2. sit on one's heels

3. make wrinkles or creases on a smooth surface; make a pressed, folded or wrinkled line in; 'crisp' is archaic

  Familiarity information: SCRUNCH used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SCRUNCH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A crunching noise

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Hypernyms ("scrunch" is a kind of...):

noise (sound of any kind (especially unintelligible or dissonant sound))

Derivation:

scrunch (make a noise typical of an engine lacking lubricants)

• SCRUNCH (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they scrunch    ... he / she / it scrunches   
Past simple: scrunched   
Past participle: scrunched   
-ing form: scrunching   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make a noise typical of an engine lacking lubricants

Classified under:

Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling

Synonyms:

crump; scrunch; thud

Hypernyms (to "scrunch" is one way to...):

crackle; crunch; scranch; scraunch (make a crushing noise)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Derivation:

scrunch (a crunching noise)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Sit on one's heels

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

crouch; hunker; hunker down; scrunch; scrunch up; squat

Context example:

The children hunkered down to protect themselves from the sandstorm

Hypernyms (to "scrunch" is one way to...):

sit; sit down (be seated)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP

Sentence examples:

The children scrunch in the rocking chair
There scrunch some children in the rocking chair

Sense 3

Meaning:

Make wrinkles or creases on a smooth surface; make a pressed, folded or wrinkled line in; 'crisp' is archaic

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

crease; crinkle; crisp; ruckle; scrunch; scrunch up; wrinkle

Context example:

crease the paper like this to make a crane

Hypernyms (to "scrunch" is one way to...):

fold; fold up; turn up (bend or lay so that one part covers the other)

Domain usage:

archaicism; archaism (the use of an archaic expression)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "scrunch"):

cockle; crumple; knit; pucker; rumple (to gather something into small wrinkles or folds)

pucker; ruck; ruck up (become wrinkled or drawn together)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Sentence example:

They scrunch the sheets

 Context examples 

One evening we were all seated together over a dish of tea when we heard the scrunch of steps outside our door, and there was the postman with a letter in his hand.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)