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Meanings of scrunch up in English

Portuguese
dobrar
Catalan
arrissar-se

Make wrinkles or creases on a smooth surface; make a pressed, folded or wrinkled line in.

dobrar
Portuguese
ficar de cócoras
Catalan
arraulir-se

Sit on one's heels.

ficar de cócoras
Usage of scrunch up in English
1
Molly was able to scrunch up her eyes and see past it.
Small favor
2
It also leads me to scrunch up when I start to get gripped.
Climbing Magazine
3
Cloe and Rikki wouldn't have to scrunch up to keep their feet warm.
Her mother's hope
4
You can go flat to go up and scrunch up to go down.
Wired
5
It is like a glue and you scrunch up the area and it holds the lines in it.
Reuters
6
Also, they scrunch up into a little ball when they are afraid and they don't what to do.
The South African
7
I make up my face and scrunch up my hair until it looks artfully tousled, but it's lopsided.
Snapped
8
I lunged out with a flashlight, shining it into his eyes, forcing him to scrunch up his face.
Repo men
9
See dat wash?-an'I got anudder room to rent if I'm min' ter scrunch up a leetle mo'.
Kennedy Square
10
When they are finished, they scrunch up red plastic drinking cups and throw them on to the ground too.
The Guardian
11
Brush the reserved egg around the pastry borders, and scrunch up the pastry a little to enclose the filling.
The South African
12
It took all her self-control not to scrunch up, cross her legs, or do something else that showed she understood.
Lost in translation
13
They're flexible enough to scrunch up into a ball, with a thin white sole that's topped by a perforated upper.
Wired
14
It's not really a sharp pain, but more of a… He'll point at his elbow again and scrunch up his face.
Rock and Ice Magazine
15
If we could scrunch up our faces in disgust, we would -but we can't because we've had too much Botox.
News.com.au
16
Printed on soft and light and "ultra resistant" waterproof material, you scrunch up the map and give it to the kids.
Wired
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