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• n  a crunching noise
• v  make a noise typical of an engine lacking lubricants
• v  sit on one's heels
• v  make wrinkles or creases on a smooth surface; make a pressed, folded or wrinkled line in

• And Jackson got nervous when Weinstein suggested they scrunch the tale down to just one movie.
• I scrunch deeper under the comforter, squeezing out more dreams.
• Instead of bouncing back at the instant of maximum scrunch, the core continues its collapse indefinitely, forming a bizarre object of infinitesimal size and nearly infinite density .

• crump
• thud
• squat
• crouch
• scrunch up
• hunker
• hunker down
• wrinkle
• ruckle
• crease
• crinkle
• crisp

News & Articles

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• Coastal Bend Garden Calendar: 09.07.13
  For “raising” tomatoes in the garden, plant the veggie and fill in with good planting mix. Get a three gallon nursery pot with the bottom cut out and scrunch it over the plant. Pinch off any leaves up to the rim and fill with soil. As it grows, add another pot collar, filling it too. Add a cage if you like. Voilà! Raised garden in a small area!
  Sept. 7, 2013 - Corpus Christi Caller-Times

Quotes

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• Robin Givhan in Toronto Star
  She was talking on the Senate floor about the burdensome cost of higher education,Givhan noted. "The cleavage registered after only a quick glance. No scrunch-faced scrutiny was necessary. There wasn't an unseemly amount of cleavage...
• Steve Squyres in Science Daily (press release)
  I thought it would scrunch down the soil particles,Squyres said. "Nothing collapsed. What is holding these grains together?"