Meaning & use
scrunching
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Crushing or squeezing something into a compact, wrinkled mass, or scrunching one's face or hair.
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She was scrunching her damp curls with a towel to add volume.
He kept scrunching the paper into tighter and tighter balls.
A note on using this word
Often used in hairstyling to describe squeezing curls with the hands or a towel to enhance their natural shape.
Words with a similar meaning
crumplingsqueezing
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Words with an opposite meaning
smoothing
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