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scrunching

scrunching is the present participle and gerund 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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Noun

scrunching (plural scrunchings)

  1. The act of something being scrunched.
    • She was oblivious of all around her, and her facial twistings and scrunchings were droll.1984, Theodore R. Sizer, Horace's Compromise: The Dilemma of the American High School

Forms of scrunching

pluralscrunchings

Phrases with scrunching

Questions about scrunching

What does scrunching mean?
Scrunching means the act of something being scrunched.
What is scrunching the present participle and gerund of?
Scrunching is the present participle and gerund of scrunch.
What part of speech is scrunching?
Scrunching is a noun.
What is the plural of scrunching?
The plural of scrunching is scrunchings.

Words near scrunching in the dictionary

  1. scrunchie
  2. scrunchier
  3. scrunchies
  4. scrunchiest
  5. scrunchin
  6. scrunching
  7. scrunching up
  8. scrunchingly
  9. scrunchings
  10. scrunchins
  11. scrunchion

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