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unscrunch

unscrunch verb: to restore or become restored from a crumpled or squeezed condition.

Verb

unscrunch (third-person singular simple present unscrunches, present participle unscrunching, simple past and past participle unscrunched)

  1. (ambitransitive, informal) To restore or become restored from a crumpled or squeezed condition.
    • The two balls of scrunched paper in the waste bin began, creakingly, to unscrunch.2016, Adam Roberts, chapter 1, in The Thing Itself, →ISBN

Forms of unscrunch

third-person singular presentunscrunches
present participleunscrunching
past participleunscrunched
pastunscrunched

Origin of unscrunch

From un- + scrunch.

Questions about unscrunch

What does unscrunch mean?
Unscrunch means to restore or become restored from a crumpled or squeezed condition.
What part of speech is unscrunch?
Unscrunch is a verb.
What is the past tense of unscrunch?
The past tense of unscrunch is unscrunched.

Words near unscrunch in the dictionary

  1. unscrolling
  2. unscrolls
  3. unscrubbable
  4. unscrubbed
  5. unscrumptious
  6. unscrunch
  7. unscrunched
  8. unscrunches
  9. unscrunching
  10. unscrupled
  11. unscrupling

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