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scrunched

scrunched is the simple past and past participle of scrunch.

Meaning of scrunch

Verb

scrunch (third-person singular simple present scrunches, present participle scrunching, simple past and past participle scrunched)

  1. (transitive) To crumple and squeeze to make more compact.
    • He scrunched the paper into a ball and threw it at the whistling girl.
    1. (transitive) To contract the muscles of one's face so as to draw their facial features together, out of pain, discomfort, uncertainty, etc.
      • He scrunched his face at his wife's confounding request.

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Phrases with scrunched

Questions about scrunched

What is scrunched the simple past and past participle of?
Scrunched is the simple past and past participle of scrunch.

Words near scrunched in the dictionary

  1. scrumtrelescent
  2. scrumtrulescent
  3. scrunch
  4. scrunch up
  5. scrunchable
  6. scrunched
  7. scrunched up
  8. scruncheon
  9. scruncheons
  10. scruncher
  11. scrunchers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: scrunched (page history and authors); scrunch (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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