| VERB | contact | scrunch up, squat, crouch, scrunch, hunker, hunker down | sit on one's heels |
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| contact | scrunch up, wrinkle, ruckle, crease, crinkle, scrunch, crisp | make wrinkles or creases on a smooth surface |
| Meaning | Sit on one's heels. | |
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| Pattern | Something ----s; Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s PP | |
| Synonyms | squat, crouch, scrunch, 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 up the sheets | |
| Synonyms | wrinkle, ruckle, crease, crinkle, scrunch, 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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