scrunches

Crushes into ball

Scrunches is the verb scrunch in third person singular or a plural noun.

To scrunch is to crush, squeeze, or crumple something into a compressed form: She scrunches the paper into a ball.

You might scrunch your face in displeasure or scrunch down in your seat to hide.

The noun describes the act or sound of crunching or compressing: the scrunch of gravel underfoot.

A scrunchie (or scrunchy) is a fabric-covered elastic hair tie.

crumples

crumple

Compress into irregular folds

crush · crease · rumple · pucker · wad · squeeze · fold · distort · deform · contract

sound

crinkling

Making small creased sounds

crinkle · swishing · swish · papery · crisp · squishing · squeaking · crackle · rustle · whoosh

facial

nose

Olfactory facial organ

squint · grimace · frown · wince · contort · furrow · expression · wrinkle · purse · sneer

texture

paper

Pressed pulp for writing

cellophane · tissue · newspaper · parchment · wrapper · bag · packet · taffeta · plastic · aluminum

Categories
Opposites
physical compression/contraction

scrunchesstretches

Extends or lengthens

stretches out · expands · extends · spreads · unfurls

surface texture

scrunchessmooths

Eliminates roughness or wrinkles

flattens · smooths out · irons · presses · straightens

Phrases
Family

scrunch, scrunched, scrunching, scrunchy, scrunchie, scrunchies

Familiarity
Top 200,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G