Past tense of scrunch
regular verb
The past tense of scrunch is scrunched. The past participle is also scrunched.
Forms of scrunch
| Base form (V1) | scrunch /skɹʌnt͡ʃ/ |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | scrunched |
| Past participle (V3) | scrunched |
| Present participle | scrunching |
| Third person singular | scrunches |
Scrunched in a sentence
- He scrunched the paper into a ball and threw it at the whistling girl.
- He scrunched his face at his wife's confounding request.
- The boy made a life-sized dummy of himself by stuffing scrunched- up newspapers into some old pyjamas.2017, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Bad Dad, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN. From the entry life-sized
- The two balls of scrunched paper in the waste bin began, creakingly, to unscrunch.2016, Adam Roberts, chapter 1, in The Thing Itself, →ISBN. From the entry unscrunch
- The púca scrunched up his face in puzzlement and rubbed his bald head.1995, Risa Aratyr, Hunter of the Light, HarperCollins, →ISBN. From the entry geis
Meaning of scrunch
- verb To crumple and squeeze to make more compact.
- verb To contract the muscles of one's face so as to draw their facial features together, out of pain, discomfort, uncertainty, etc.
- noun A crunching noise.
Questions about the past tense of scrunch
- What is the past tense of scrunch?
- The past tense of scrunch is scrunched.
- What is the past participle of scrunch?
- The past participle of scrunch is scrunched.
- Is scrunch a regular or irregular verb?
- Scrunch is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.
Source and license
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