NOUN | event | scrunch | a crunching noise |
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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 | |
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Rhymes | brunch ... punch: 10 rhymes with ahnch... |
Meaning | A crunching noise. | |
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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. | |
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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. | |
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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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