unscrunch

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verb

To restore or become restored from a crumpled or squeezed condition.

Scrabble 16

Meanings

verbunscrunch (third-person singular simple present unscrunches, present participle unscrunching, simple past and past participle unscrunched)

present singular third person unscrunches · participle present unscrunching · participle past unscrunched · past unscrunched

  1. ambitransitiveinformalTo restore or become restored from a crumpled or squeezed condition.

    The two balls of scrunched paper in the waste bin began, creakingly, to unscrunch.

    2016, Adam Roberts, chapter 1, in The Thing Itself, →ISBN

Origin

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APA

unscrunch. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unscrunch

MLA

“unscrunch.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unscrunch. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “unscrunch,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unscrunch.

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