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scroonch

/skɹʊnt͡ʃ/

scroonch verb: to crouch.

Verb

scroonch (third-person singular simple present scroonches, present participle scroonching, simple past and past participle scroonched)

  1. to crouch
    • He scroonched down flat on his belly and wiggled right under the fence1950, The Hopkins Review
  2. to scrunch
    • The patient is shown how to hold one end of the string in his lips, and with a scroonching lip motion, to bring the marshmallow up to his mouth1969, International Journal of Orthodontics
    • The firelit face was low to the ground, tuening slowly from side to side; abruptly I realized that the turning head was sniffing the air on one side and then the other, scroonching its nose rather like an ape as it did so2010, David Abram, Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology

Forms of scroonch

third-person singular presentscroonches
present participlescroonching
past participlescroonched
pastscroonched

Questions about scroonch

What does scroonch mean?
Scroonch means to crouch.
What part of speech is scroonch?
Scroonch is a verb.
How do you pronounce scroonch?
Scroonch is pronounced /skɹʊnt͡ʃ/.
What is the past tense of scroonch?
The past tense of scroonch is scroonched.

Words near scroonch in the dictionary

  1. Scroogey
  2. Scroogian
  3. scroogie
  4. scroogies
  5. scrooging
  6. scroonch
  7. scroonched
  8. scroonches
  9. scroonching
  10. scroop
  11. scrooped

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