WordNet
v. 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]
make wrinkles or creases into a smooth surface; "The dress got wrinkled" [syn: wrinkle, ruckle, crease, crinkle, scrunch, crisp]
Usage examples of "scrunch up".
I got to her while she was still trying to scrunch up small enough to fit.
There wasn't quite room for five of them behind the golf cart and the captain had to scrunch up to avoid her left side being exposed.
Still, the combination of cheap wine and old sweat gave this one a particularly nasty flavor that made Deudermont scrunch up his face, even put a hand over his nose to try to intercept some of the fumes.
The one in the monitor twitched tiny fingers at the soft red glow, and seemed to scrunch up its big dark eyes.
The powdered ginseng was tickling my nose, making it scrunch up and my eyes water with the urge to sneeze.
Now gentlemen, if you will scrunch up a bit toward the dais, I don't think we'll feel so lost.
The space they were in was, seemingly, a tight fit, and Alfred was forced to scrunch up until he practically doubled in two to make room.