scrunch

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of SCRUNCH

to create (as by crushing) an irregular mass of creases in <scrunched up the shirt and tossed it in the laundry>

Synonyms crinkle, rumple, scrunch, wrinkle

Related Words corrugate, crease, crimp, fold, pleat, pucker, ruck; crisp, ripple, ruffle; contract, furrow, knit; mess (up), muss (up)

Near Antonyms even, iron, press, straighten; unfold; neaten, tidy

Antonyms flatten, iron out, smooth, smoothen, uncrumple

to lie low with the limbs close to the body <the climbers scrunched down on the leeward side of a large boulder and waited for the storm to pass>

Synonyms couch, huddle, hunch, hunker (down), scrunch, squat, squinch

Related Words curl up

to press or strike against or together so as to make a scraping sound <scrunched loose gravel with every footstep>

Synonyms crunch, gnash, grate, grit, scrape, scrunch

Related Words creak, groan, moan, rasp, scratch, whine; clash, collide, jangle, jar

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