scrunching

/S K R AH1 N CH IH0 NG/
verb
  1. 1

    To grind with the teeth, and with a crackling sound; to craunch.

verb
  1. 1

    To crumple and squeeze to make more compact.

    โ€œHe scrunched the paper into a ball and threw it at the whistling girl.โ€

noun
  1. 1

    The act of something being scrunched.

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