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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a crunching noise v
1: make a noise typical of an engine lacking lubricants [syn: crump, thud, scrunch]
2: sit on one's heels; "In some cultures, the women give birth while squatting"; "The children hunkered down to protect themselves from the sandstorm" [syn: squat, crouch, scrunch, scrunch up, hunker, hunker down]
3: make wrinkles or creases on a smooth surface; make a pressed, folded or wrinkled line in; "The dress got wrinkled"; "crease the paper like this to make a crane" [syn: wrinkle, ruckle, crease, crinkle, scrunch, scrunch up, crisp]

Merriam Webster's

I. verb Etymology: alteration of ¹crunch Date: circa 1790 transitive verb 1. crunch, crush 2. a. to draw or squeeze together tightly b. crumple — often used with up c. to cause (as one's features) to draw together — usually used with up intransitive verb 1. to move with or make a crunching sound 2. crouch, hunch; also squeeze II. noun Date: 1857 a crunching sound

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v. & n. --v.tr. & intr. 1 (usu. foll. by up) make or become crushed or crumpled. 2 make or cause to make a crunching sound. --n. the act or an instance of scrunching. Etymology: var. of CRUNCH

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Scrunch Scrunch, v. t. & v. i. [Cf. Scranch, Crunch.] To scranch; to crunch. --Dickens.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(scrunches, scrunching, scrunched) If you scrunch something, you squeeze it or bend it so that it is no longer in its natural shape and is often crushed. Her father scrunched his nose... Her mother was sitting bolt upright, scrunching her white cotton gloves into a ball. VERB: V n, V n into n; PHRASAL VERB • Scrunch up means the same as scrunch. She scrunched up three pages of notes and threw them in the bin... I scrunched my hat up in my pocket. V P n (not pron), V n P

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

v. a. 1. Crush, crunch, scranch. 2. Grind down, oppress.

Moby Thesaurus

abrade, atomize, beat, belch, blare, blat, bray, brecciate, burr, buzz, cackle, caw, champ, chaw, chew, chirr, chomp, chump, clang, clangor, clank, clash, comminute, contriturate, craunch, crimp, crimple, crinkle, croak, crumb, crumble, crump, crunch, crush, disintegrate, flour, fragment, grain, granulate, granulize, grate, grind, grind to powder, groan, growl, grumble, jangle, jar, levigate, mash, masticate, mill, munch, pestle, pound, powder, pulverize, rasp, reduce to powder, rimple, ruckle, ruminate, rumple, scranch, scrape, scratch, screw, shard, shred, smash, snarl, snore, squash, triturate, twang, wrinkle