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Scrunch

To scranch; to crunch.

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Manner of action 6

Cockle 76% connected

A bivalve mollusk, with radiating ribs, of the genus Cardium, especially C. edule, used in Europe for food; -- sometimes applied to similar shells of…

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Crumple 76% connected

To draw or press into wrinkles or folds; to crush together; to rumple; as, to crumple paper.

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Knit 76% connected

of Knit

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Pucker 76% connected

To gather into small folds or wrinkles; to contract into ridges and furrows; to corrugate; -- often with up; as, to pucker up the mouth.

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Ruck 76% connected

A roc.

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Rumple 76% connected

To make uneven; to form into irregular inequalities; to wrinkle; to crumple; as, to rumple an apron or a cravat.

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Broader term 6

Crackle 76% connected

To make slight cracks; to make small, sharp, sudden noises, rapidly or frequently repeated; to crepitate; as, burning thorns crackle.

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Crunch 76% connected

To chew with force and noise; to craunch.

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Fold 76% connected

To lap or lay in plaits or folds; to lay one part over another part of; to double; as, to fold cloth; to fold a letter.

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Noise 76% connected

Sound of any kind.

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Scranch 76% connected

To grind with the teeth, and with a crackling sound; to craunch.

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Sit 76% connected

obs. 3d pers. sing. pres. of Sit, for sitteth.

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Clump 74% connected

An unshaped piece or mass of wood or other substance.

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Clump 74% connected

An unshaped piece or mass of wood or other substance.

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Thud 74% connected

A dull sound without resonance, like that produced by striking with, or striking against, some comparatively soft substance; also, the stroke or blow…

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Thud 74% connected

A dull sound without resonance, like that produced by striking with, or striking against, some comparatively soft substance; also, the stroke or blow…

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Synonym 9

Crease 92% connected

See Creese.

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Crinkle 92% connected

To form with short turns, bends, or wrinkles; to mold into inequalities or sinuosities; to cause to wrinkle or curl.

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Crisp 92% connected

Curling in stiff curls or ringlets; as, crisp hair.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Crouch 92% connected

To bend down; to stoop low; to lie close to the ground with the logs bent, as an animal when waiting for prey, or in fear.

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Crump 92% connected

Crooked; bent.

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Hunker 92% connected

Originally, a nickname for a member of the conservative section of the Democratic party in New York; hence, one opposed to progress in general; a fog…

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Squat 92% connected

The angel fish (Squatina angelus).

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Thud 92% connected

A dull sound without resonance, like that produced by striking with, or striking against, some comparatively soft substance; also, the stroke or blow…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Wrinkle 92% connected

A winkle.

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