1. A crunching noise
   "We heard the scrunch of footsteps on the gravel path"

1. Make a crushing or grinding noise
   "his shoes were scrunching on the gravel";
   - crunch, scranch [dialect], scraunch [dialect], crackle
    
2. Press or grind with a crushing noise
   "He scrunched the ice cubes between his teeth";
   - crunch, cranch [archaic], craunch [archaic], grind
    
3. Squeeze or crush a flat material to make a compact rough ball or fit in a container
   "he scrunched up the letter and threw it";
   - scrunch up, crumple, crumple up

Derived forms: scrunched, scrunches, scrunching

Type of: make noise, noise, press, resound