Synonyms of the word

scrunch

• v. To crumple and squeeze to make more compact.
• n. A crunching noise.

crackle

• n. A fizzing, popping sound.
• n. (pottery) A style of glaze giving the impression of many small cracks.
• n. (physics) The fifth derivative of the position vector with respect to time (after velocity, acceleration,…
• v. (intransitive) To make a fizzing, popping sound.

crease

• n. A line or mark made by folding or doubling any pliable substance; hence, a similar mark, however produced.
• n. (cricket) One of the white lines drawn on the pitch to show different areas of play; especially the popping…
• n. (lacrosse) The circle around the goal, where no offensive players can go.
• n. (ice hockey, handball) The goal crease; an area in front of each goal.
• v. (transitive) To make a crease in; to wrinkle.
• v. (transitive) To lightly bloody; to graze.
• n. Archaic form of kris.

crinkle

• v. (transitive, intransitive) To fold, crease, crumple, or wad.
• v. (intransitive) To rustle, as stiff cloth when moved.
• n. A wrinkle, fold, crease, or unevenness.

crisp

• adj. (of something seen or heard) Sharp, clearly defined.
• adj. Brittle; friable; in a condition to break with a short, sharp fracture.
• adj. Possessing a certain degree of firmness and freshness.
• adj. (of weather, air etc.) Dry and cold.
• adj. (of movement, action etc.) Quick and accurate.
• adj. (of talk, text, etc.) Brief and to the point.
• adj. (of wine) having a refreshing amount of acidity; having less acidity than green wine, but more than a…
• adj. (obsolete) Lively; sparking; effervescing.
• adj. (dated) Curling in stiff curls or ringlets.
• adj. (obsolete) Curled by the ripple of water.
• adj. (computing theory) Not using fuzzy logic; based on a binary distinction between true and false.
• n. (Britain) A thin slice of fried potato eaten as a snack.
• v. (transitive) To make crisp.
• v. (intransitive) To become crisp.
• v. (transitive, dated) To curl; to form into ringlets, for example hair, or the nap of cloth.
• v. (transitive, dated) to interweave, like the branches of trees.
• v. (intransitive, archaic) To undulate or ripple.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To cause to undulate irregularly, as crape or water; to wrinkle; to cause to ripple.

crouch

• n. (obsolete) A cross.
• v. (obsolete) To sign with the cross; bless.
• v. (intransitive) To bend down; to stoop low; to lie close to the ground with legs bent, as an animal when…
• v. (intransitive) To bend servilely; to stoop meanly; to fawn; to cringe.
• v. (intransitive) To bend, or cause to bend, as in humility or fear.
• n. A bent or stooped position.
• n. A button (of a joypad, joystick or similar device) whose only or main current function is that when it…

crump

• n. The sound of a muffled explosion.
• v. (intransitive) To produce such a sound.
• adj. (Britain, Scotland, dialect) Hard or crusty; dry baked.
• adj. (obsolete) Crooked; bent.

crunch

• v. To crush something, especially food, with a noisy crackling sound.
• v. To be crushed with a noisy crackling sound.
• v. (slang) To calculate or otherwise process (e.g. to crunch numbers: to perform mathematical calculations).
• v. To grind or press with violence and noise.
• v. To emit a grinding or crunching noise.
• v. (computing, transitive) To compress (data) using a particular algorithm, so that it can be restored by…
• n. A noisy crackling sound; the sound usually associated with crunching.
• n. A critical moment or event.
• n. (exercise (sport)) A form of abdominal exercise, based on a sit-up but in which the lower back remains…

fold

• v. (transitive) To bend (any thin material, such as paper) over so that it comes in contact with itself.
• v. (transitive) To make the proper arrangement (in a thin material) by bending.
• v. (intransitive) To become folded; to form folds.
• v. (intransitive, informal) To fall over; to be crushed.
• v. (transitive) To enclose within folded arms (see also enfold).
• v. (intransitive) To give way on a point or in an argument.
• v. (intransitive, poker) To withdraw from betting.
• v. (intransitive, by extension) To withdraw or quit in general.
• v. (transitive, cooking) To stir gently, with a folding action.
• v. (intransitive, business) Of a company, to cease to trade.
• v. To double or lay together, as the arms or the hands.
• v. To cover or wrap up; to conceal.
• n. An act of folding.
• n. A bend or crease.
• n. Any correct move in origami.
• n. (newspapers) The division between the top and bottom halves of a broadsheet: headlines above the fold…
• n. (by extension, web design) The division between the part of a web page visible in a web browser window…
• n. That which is folded together, or which enfolds or envelops; embrace.
• n. A group of sheep or goats.
• n. A group of people who adhere to a common faith and habitually attend a given church.
• n. A group of people with shared ideas or goals or who live or work together.
• n. (geology) The bending or curving of one or a stack of originally flat and planar surfaces, such as sedimentary…
• n. (computing, programming) In functional programming, any of a family of higher-order functions that process…
• n. A pen or enclosure for sheep or other domestic animals.
• n. (figuratively) Home, family.
• n. (religion, Christian) A church congregation, a church, the Christian church as a whole, the flock of Christ.
• n. (obsolete) A boundary or limit.
• v. To confine sheep in a fold.
• n. (dialectal, poetic or obsolete) The Earth; earth; land, country.

hunker

• v. (intransitive) To crouch or squat close to the ground.
• n. (dated) A political conservative.

noise

• n. Various sounds, usually unwanted or unpleasant.
• n. Sound or signal generated by random fluctuations.
• n. (technology) Unwanted part of a signal. (Signal to noise ratio).
• n. (genetics) The measured level of variation in gene expression among cells, regardless of source, within…
• n. Rumour or complaint.
• n. (obsolete) Music, in general; a concert; also, a company of musicians; a band.
• n. (music) A genre of rock music that uses static and other non-musical sounds, also influenced by art rock.
• v. (intransitive) To make a noise; to sound.
• v. (transitive) To spread news of; to spread as rumor or gossip.

ruckle

• v. To crease or wrinkle.
• n. A disordered collection.
• n. A wrinkle.

scranch

• v. (transitive) To grind with the teeth, and with a crackling sound; to craunch.

sit

• v. (intransitive, of a person) To be in a position in which the upper body is upright and supported by the…
• v. (intransitive, of a person) To move oneself into such a position.
• v. (intransitive, of an object) To occupy a given position permanently.
• v. To remain in a state of repose; to rest; to abide; to rest in any position or condition.
• v. (government) To be a member of a deliberative body.
• v. (law, government) Of a legislative or, especially, a judicial body such as a court, to be in session.
• v. To lie, rest, or bear; to press or weigh.
• v. To be adjusted; to fit.
• v. (intransitive, of an agreement or arrangement) To be accepted or acceptable; to work.
• v. (transitive) To cause to be seated or in a sitting posture; to furnish a seat to.
• v. (transitive) To accommodate in seats; to seat.
• v. (intransitive) shortened form of babysit.
• v. (transitive, US) To babysit.
• v. (transitive, Australia, New Zealand, Britain) To take, to undergo or complete (an examination or test).
• v. To cover and warm eggs for hatching, as a fowl; to brood; to incubate.
• v. To take a position for the purpose of having some artistic representation of oneself made, such as a picture…
• v. To have position, as at the point blown from; to hold a relative position; to have direction.
• n. (rare, Buddhism) an event (usually one full day or more) where the primary goal is to sit in meditation.

squat

• adj. Relatively short or low, and thick or broad.
• adj. Sitting on the hams or heels; sitting close to the ground; cowering; crouching.
• n. A position assumed by bending deeply at the knees while resting on one's feet.
• n. (weightlifting) A specific exercise in weightlifting performed by bending deeply at the knees and then…
• n. A building occupied without permission, as practiced by a squatter.
• n. A toilet used by squatting as opposed to sitting; a squat toilet.
• n. (slang) Something of no value; nothing.
• n. (obsolete) A sudden or crushing fall.
• n. (mining) A small vein of ore.
• n. A mineral consisting of tin ore and spar.
• v. To bend deeply at the knees while resting on one's feet.
• v. (weightlifting) To exercise by bending deeply at the knees and then rising, while bearing weight across…
• v. To occupy or reside in a place without the permission of the owner.
• v. To sit close to the ground; to cower; to stoop, or lie close, to escape observation, as a partridge or…
• v. (dated) To bruise or flatten by a fall; to squash.
• n. The angel shark (genus Squatina).

thud

• n. The sound of a dull impact.
• n. (US, military, dated slang) Republic F-105 Thunderchief jet ground attack fighter.
• v. To make the sound of a dull impact.

wrinkle

• n. A small furrow, ridge or crease in an otherwise smooth surface.
• n. A line or crease in the skin, especially when caused by age or fatigue.
• n. A fault, imperfection or bug especially in a new system or product; typically, they will need to be ironed…
• n. (dated) A notion or fancy; a whim.
• v. (transitive) To make wrinkles in; to cause to have wrinkles.
• v. (intransitive) To pucker or become uneven or irregular.
• v. (intransitive, of skin) To develop irreversibly wrinkles; to age.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To sneer (at).
• n. (US, dialect) A winkle.