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Definitions: Scrunch |
ScrunchNoun1. A crunching noise. Verb1. Make a crunching noise, as of an engine lacking lubricants. 2. Sit on one's heels; "In some cultures, the women give birth while squatting". 3. Make wrinkles or creases into a smooth surface; "The dress got wrinkled". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "scrunch" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1884. (references) |
Note: Scrunch \Scrunch\, transitive verb. intransitive verb. [Compare to Scranch, Crunch.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonyms: ScrunchSynonyms: crease (v), crinkle (v), crisp (v), crouch (v), crump (v), crunch (v), hunker down (v), ruckle (v), scrunch up (v), squat (v), thud (v), wrinkle (v). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Scrunch |
| English words defined with "scrunch": scrunch up. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Play | Caption |
 | Crumple; crumpling; ball; throw away; crease; crimp; crimple; crinkle; crush; fall; fold; give way; pucker; rimple; ruck; rumple; scrunch; shrivel; wad; wadding; scrunching; rumpling; creasing; crimpling. |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Scrunch" is generally used as a lexical verb (base form) -- approximately 40.00% of the time. "Scrunch" is used about 15 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 40% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Noun (singular) | 33.33% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 26.67% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 15 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "scrunch": scrunch up. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "scrunch": scrunch-dried, scrunch-drying. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
hair scrunch | 21 |
scrunch sleeve | 3 |
scrunch | 2 |
scrunch boot | 2 |
fold scrunch | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "scrunch"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | mbledh lëmsh. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | схрускване, схрусквам, смачквам (crease, crush, jam out, press, ruck, rumple, smash, squash, wad). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | skřípot (creak, Gride, jar, scratch, scream), skřípat (creak, gnash, grate, grind, jar, rasp, scream, scroop), chrupot, chrupat. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | منقبض کردن (Condense, Constrict, Contract, Retract, Shrug), مچاله کردن (Crumple, Rumple, Tousle), صدای بهم خوردن چیزی , درهم شکستن (Breakdown, Crash, Force, Overwhelm, Smash, Vanquish), بهم فشردن (Compress, Gnash, Impact). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | knirschen (creak, crunch, crunching, gnash, grate, grind, grit, to crunch). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | τραγανίζω (craunch, crunch, munch, scranch). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | ropogtatás (crunch), recsegés (crack, cracking), reccsenés (crack, cracking, crunch, zip), fogcsikorgatás. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | sgranocchiare (crunch, munch, nibble). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | cranshal (chew noisily, crunch, grinding). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | unchscray triturar (Basil, Bray, break, bruise, champ, crunch, crush, disintegration, grind, lead on, mash, masticate, mill, pounder, powder keg, Spall, talcum, triturate), mastigar ruidosamente (crunch, muncher). (various references) mesteca cu zgomot. (various references) хрустеть (crepitate, crunch, crunching, eat crisp). (various references) poviti (bend, bow, hunch, recurve, stoop, swaddle). (various references) triturar (breaking, crush, grind, mill, pulverize, scutching, triturate), masticar (chew, masticate, munch), hacer crujir, crujir (crack, crackle, creak, Crinkle, crisp, crunch, gride, rattle, rustle, squeak), crujido (crack, crackle, creak, creaking, crunch, gride, rattle, rustle, squeak, swish, swoosh). (various references) skrynkla ihop (screw up), kuta, kura ihop sig, krossa (Bray, break, bruise, crash, crunch, crush, dash, flatten, fracture, grind, mill, pulverize, quash, scotch, shatter, smash, squelch, steamroller), krasande, krasa sönder (crunch), knyckla ihop, knastra (crackle, crepitate, crunch), knaster (crackle, crackling, fizzing, sizzle, sizzling, spitting, sputtering). (various references) kıtır kıtır yeme, hışırdatmak (Crinkle, rustle), ezmek (Bray, comminute, crunch, crush, domineer, grind, hold down, knock over, mangle, mash, oppress, overbear, overwhelm, pound, pulverize, quash, run down, run over, smash, squash, squeeze, squelch, squish, stamp, stave in, steamroller, stump, swat, trample, trample down, tread, tread under foot, tyrannize, weigh down), ezme (crush, crushing, grinding, mash, mashing, paste, pate, pomace, pulverization, puree, spoon meat), çatırtı (clack, crack, crackle, crackling noise, crash, crunch, smash), çatırdatmak (crack, crackle), çatırdamak (chatter, clack, clash, crack, crackle, creak, crepitate, make a crackling noise, snap), çıtırtı (click, crackle, crunch, splutter, sputter), çıtırdatma, çıtırdamak (crackle, crunch, spit, splutter). (various references) хрустіти (crackle, crepitate, crisp, crunch), хрустіння, гризти (champ, gnaw, munch, nag, nib, nibble). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "scrunch": scrunched, scrunches, scrunching. (additional references) | |
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"Scrunch" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: schunk, scrounch, scrunchie. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "scrunch" (pronounced skru"nkh) |
| 5 | -k r u" n kh | crunch. |
| 4 | -r u" n kh | brunch. |
| 3 | -u" n kh | bunch, hunch, lunch, Munch, punch. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-c-h-n-r-s-u" | |
-1 letter: churns, crunch. | |
-2 letters: churn, crush, curch, curns. | |
-3 letters: crus, curn, curs, huns, rhus, runs, rush, shun, such, urns. | |
-4 letters: cur, hun, nus, run, sun, uns, urn. | |
-5 letters: nu, sh, uh, un, us. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-c-h-n-r-s-u" | |
+1 letter: crunches. | |
+2 letters: chancrous, craunches, crunchers, scrunched, scrunches. | |
+3 letters: churchings, cranreuchs, crunchiest, scrunching, unchurches. | |
+4 letters: cowpunchers, crunchiness. | |
+5 letters: buccaneerish, churchgoings, churchliness. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 63 72 75 6E 63 68 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... -.-. .-. ..- -. -.-. .... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01100011 01110010 01110101 01101110 01100011 01101000 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S c r u n c h |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0063 0072 0075 006E 0063 0068 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)53698487806974 |
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