| NOUN | event | scrunch | a crunching noise |
|---|---|---|---|
| VERB | perception | scrunch, crump, thud | make a noise typical of an engine lacking lubricants |
| contact | scrunch, squat, crouch, scrunch up, hunker, hunker down | sit on one's heels | |
| contact | scrunch, wrinkle, ruckle, crease, crinkle, scrunch up, crisp | make wrinkles or creases on a smooth surface |
| Sounds | skrah'nch | |
|---|---|---|
| Rhymes | brunch ... punch: 10 rhymes with ahnch... | |
| Meaning | A crunching noise. | |
|---|---|---|
| Broader | noise | sound of any kind (especially unintelligible or dissonant sound) |
| Spanish | crujido | |
| Catalan | cruixit | |
| Verbs | scrunch | make a noise typical of an engine lacking lubricants |
| Meaning | make a noise typical of an engine lacking lubricants. | |
|---|---|---|
| Pattern | Something ----s | |
| Synonyms | crump, thud | |
| Broader | crunch, scranch, scraunch, crackle | Make a crushing noise |
| Nouns | scrunch | a crunching noise |
| Meaning | Sit on one's heels. | |
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| Pattern | Something ----s; Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s PP | |
| Model | The children scrunch in the rocking chair; There scrunch some children in the rocking chair | |
| Synonyms | squat, crouch, scrunch up, hunker, hunker down | |
| Broader | sit, sit down | Be seated |
| Spanish | acuclillarse, acurrucarse, agacharse, agachar, ponerse de cuclillas | |
| Catalan | aclofar-se, acotxar-se, ajupir-se, arraulir-se, arrupir-se, posar-se a la gatzoneta | |
| Meaning | make wrinkles or creases on a smooth surface; make a pressed, folded or wrinkled line in. | |
|---|---|---|
| Pattern | Something ----s; Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something | |
| Model | They scrunch the sheets | |
| Synonyms | wrinkle, ruckle, crease, crinkle, scrunch up, crisp | |
| Narrower | pucker, rumple, cockle, crumple, knit | To gather something into small wrinkles or folds |
| pucker, ruck, ruck up | Become wrinkled or drawn together | |
| Broader | fold, fold up, turn up | bend or lay so that one part covers the other |
| Usage of | archaism, archaicism | The use of an archaic expression |
| Spanish | arrugarse, arrugar | |
| Catalan | arrissar-se, arrugar-se, arrugar, cargolar | |
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