scrunched

5 definitions • 5 examples

past simple and past participle of

to make the noise produced by hard things being pressed together, or to press hard things together so that they make a noise:

The pebbles scrunched beneath our feet.

We scrunched snow under our feet.

to crush material such as paper or cloth into a rough ball in the hand:

She scrunched the letter up and threw it in the bin.

to make something or yourself smaller to fit into a small space:

The cat was hiding, scrunched up under the sofa.

to make your face or part of your face into a tight shape in order to show an emotion, or to go into a tight shape that expresses an emotion:

He was red with anger and his face was all scrunched up.