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    SCRUNCH UP

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     I. (verb) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Make wrinkles or creases on a smooth surface; make a pressed, folded or wrinkled line in; 'crisp' is archaicplay

    Example:

    crease the paper like this to make a crane

    Synonyms:

    crease; crinkle; crisp; ruckle; scrunch; scrunch up; wrinkle

    Classified under:

    Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

    Hypernyms (to "scrunch up" is one way to...):

    fold; fold up; turn up (bend or lay so that one part covers the other)

    Domain usage:

    archaicism; archaism (the use of an archaic expression)

    Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "scrunch up"):

    cockle; crumple; knit; pucker; rumple (to gather something into small wrinkles or folds)

    pucker; ruck; ruck up (become wrinkled or drawn together)

    Sentence frames:

    Something ----s
    Somebody ----s something
    Something ----s something

    Sentence example:

    They scrunch up the sheets


    Sense 2

    Meaning:

    Sit on one's heelsplay

    Example:

    The children hunkered down to protect themselves from the sandstorm

    Synonyms:

    crouch; hunker; hunker down; scrunch; scrunch up; squat

    Classified under:

    Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

    Hypernyms (to "scrunch up" is one way to...):

    sit; sit down (be seated)

    Sentence frames:

    Something ----s
    Somebody ----s
    Somebody ----s PP

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