noun
Meaning 1
A crunching noise.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
scrunch
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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/skɹʌnt͡ʃ/
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rhymes with -ʌntʃ
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CMU ARPABET: S K R AH1 N CH Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
verb
Meaning 2
To crumple and squeeze to make more compact.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Examples
- He scrunched the paper into a ball and threw it at the whistling girl.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 3
To crumple and squeeze to make more compact.
To contract the muscles of one's face so as to draw their facial features together, out of pain, discomfort, uncertainty, etc.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Examples
- He scrunched his face at his wife's confounding request.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 4
Alternative form of scranch.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, alternative
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 5
a crunching noise
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: noise
verb
Meaning 6
make wrinkles or creases on a smooth surface; make a pressed, folded or wrinkled line in
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- The dress got wrinkled
- crease the paper like this to make a crane
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: wrinkle, ruckle, crease, crinkle, scrunch up, crisp
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: fold, fold up, turn up
Narrower terms: pucker, rumple, cockle, crumple, knit, ruck, ruck up
verb
Meaning 7
sit on one's heels
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- In some cultures, the women give birth while squatting
- The children hunkered down to protect themselves from the sandstorm
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: squat, crouch, scrunch up, hunker, hunker down
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: sit, sit down
verb
Meaning 8
make a noise typical of an engine lacking lubricants
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: crump, thud
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: crunch, scranch, scraunch, crackle
History
Etymology
Attested since about 1800. Probably an intensive form of crunch; ultimately derived from the onomatopoeia of a crumpling sound; or perhaps a blend of squeeze + crunch.
Across languages
Translations
29 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: скърцане (skǎrcane) — crunching noise
- Bulgarian: хрускане (hruskane) — crunching noise
- Bulgarian: хрущене (hruštene) — crunching noise
- Danish: knase — crunching noise
- Danish: mase — crunching noise
- Polish: chrzęst — crunching noise
- Polish: chrupot — crunching noise
- Portuguese: apertar — crunching noise
- Swedish: knaster — crunching noise
- Swedish: krasande — crunching noise
- Bulgarian: ма́чкам (máčkam) — crumple
- Bulgarian: сма́чквам (smáčkvam) — crumple
- Bulgarian: сма́чкам (smáčkam) — crumple
- Danish: mase — crumple
- Faroese: rukka saman — crumple
- German: knüllen — crumple
- German: zerknüllen — crumple
- German: zusammenknüllen — crumple
- German: zerknautschen — crumple
- German: zusammenknautschen — crumple
- Italian: compattare — crumple
- Italian: accartocciare — crumple
- Māori: kopenu — crumple
- Polish: miąć w kulkę — crumple
- Polish: zmiąć w kulkę — crumple
- Spanish: arrugar — crumple
- Swedish: knyckla ihop — crumple
- Swedish: skrynkla ihop — crumple
- Swedish: krossa — crumple