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单词 scrunch
释义 scrunch
I. \ˈskrənch, -u̇-\ verb
(-ed/-ing/-es)
Etymology: alteration (perhaps influenced by squeeze) of crunch (I)
transitive verb
1. : crunch, crush
 < a young fox … scrunching the insects up hungrily as he unearthed them — Gerald Durrell >
 < dropped her half-smoked cigarette to the floor, scrunched it out with a precise toe — Boyce Eakin >
2.
 a. also scroonch \-u̇-\ : to squeeze together : make into a compact mass : contract, hunch
  < scrunched his eyebrows down again — A.J.Liebling >
 b. : crumple, rumple
  < scrunch a paper plate and throw it on the fire >
  < don't scrunch my dress — Lillian Smith >
intransitive verb
1.
 a. : to make a crunching sound
  < walked on tiptoe … in order that the pebbles might not scrunch under my feet — Dwight MacDonald >
 b. : to move with a crunching sound
  < ice scrunched along the vessel's sides — Frank Hurley >
2. also scroonch : crouch, squeeze
 < scrunched behind the boxwood hedge and reconnoitered — Al Hine >
 < we scrunched together like bulls in a horse trailer — A.J.Liebling >
 < my bigger brothers had to scrunch down to pass for under six — Mary McCarthy >
II. noun
(-es)
: a crunching sound
 < a scrunch of wheels on the gravel outside — Agatha Christie >
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