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scrunches

scrunches is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 scrunches

Questions about scrunches

What is scrunches the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Scrunches is the third-person singular simple present indicative of scrunch.

Words near scrunches in the dictionary

  1. scrunched up
  2. scruncheon
  3. scruncheons
  4. scruncher
  5. scrunchers
  6. scrunches
  7. scrunches up
  8. scrunchi
  9. scrunchie
  10. scrunchier
  11. scrunchies

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Adapted from Wiktionary: scrunches (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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