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His javelin He leans on and scrunches with firm step a passage the bristling Grim ice fields across!
WORD ORIGIN
1825, "to bite," intensive form of crunch (v.); ultimately imitative. Meaning "to squeeze" is recorded from 1835 (implied in scrunched). Related: Scrunching.
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the
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