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scrunch

[skruhnch, skroonch] / skrʌntʃ, skrʊntʃ /
VERB
crumple
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You cook them really quickly in a pan with butter and then scrunch them, which allows for the maple-soy butter to pool in all the little pockets.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 11, 2026

We watched its robot slowly but smoothly make a coffee, scrunch up some socks and clear a table of perilously fragile wine glasses.

From BBC • Jan. 11, 2026

My face would scrunch up and I’d shudder from the intense flavors, but I never cried.

From Salon • Sep. 13, 2025

Since the mid-1960s, microscopists have seen that axons can scrunch up to form beads when they are diseased or under other stress.

From Science Magazine • Dec. 2, 2024

With daily scrubbing, his skin had cleared up, and he didn’t scrunch up his face from cramps anymore.

From "Endangered" by Eliot Schrefer