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scrunching up

scrunching up is the present participle and gerund of scrunch up.

Meaning of scrunch up

Verb

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

  1. (informal, transitive) To scrunch one's face or a part of one's face.
    • He scrunched up his nose.

Questions about scrunching up

What is scrunching up the present participle and gerund of?
Scrunching up is the present participle and gerund of scrunch up.

Words near scrunching up in the dictionary

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

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