0 past simple and past participle of scrunch
1 to make the noise produced by hard things being pressed together, or to press hard things together so that they make a noise:
2 to crush material such as paper or cloth into a rough ball in the hand:
3 to make something or yourself smaller to fit into a small space:
When they breathed out, it would be fine, but when they came back they scrunched.
The turnout trousers, when not in use, are usually stored scrunched down around the boots for efficient and fast access when they are needed.
The review went on to state that almost all the dialogue is shouted, with faces scrunched in anger.
Instead, the compressed zone is scrunched up and sheared laterally into mountain ranges, in a process called obduction.
Next, the cloth is scrunched on the pole.
