scrunch up

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verb

1. make wrinkles or creases on a smooth surface;
make a pressed, folded or wrinkled line in
- The dress got wrinkled
- crease the paper like this to make a crane
• Syn:
wrinkle, ruckle, crease, crinkle, scrunch, crisp
• Derivationally related forms:
crinkle (for: crinkle), crease (for: crease), wrinkle (for: wrinkle)
• Hypernyms:
fold, fold up, turn up
• Hyponyms:
pucker, rumple, cockle, crumple, knit,
ruck, ruck up
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s
- Somebody ----s something
- Something ----s something
- They scrunch up the sheets
2. sit on one's heels
- In some cultures, the women give birth while squatting
- The children hunkered down to protect themselves from the sandstorm
• Syn:
squat, crouch, scrunch, hunker, hunker down
• Derivationally related forms:
squat (for: squat), squatting (for: squat)
• Hypernyms:
sit, sit down
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s
- Somebody ----s
- Somebody ----s PP