| 单词 |
scrunched |
| 释义 |
scrunched, ppl. a. (and pa. pple.)
[f. scrunch v.]
a. Crushed, crunched, squeezed, squashed. Also freq. with up.
1835–7Dickens Sk. Boz, Last Cab-driver, He had compromised with the parents of three scrunched children, and just ‘worked out’ his fine for knocking down an old lady. 1910C. E. Montague Hind let Loose xi. 219 Some ebb..would leave..the foreshore only littered with..tobacco-ashes, used matches, scrunched-up envelopes. 1963C. D. Simak They walked like Men iii. 13 Balls of scrunched-up copy paper tossed onto the floor. 1974T. P. Whitney tr. Solzhenitsyn's Gulag Archipelago I. ii. i. 504 All that was left in that scrunched-up wad the engine room of the law had spewed out into the prisoner transport was a greed for life, and no understanding whatever.
b. Hunched, huddled, cowering. Usu. with up; occas. with back, down, etc. Chiefly U.S.
a1902S. Butler Way of All Flesh (1903) lv. 253 He looks that worrited and scrunched up at times. 1905N.Y. Sunday World 11 June (Mag. Section) 8/2 You sit there with your shoulders scrunched up, giving an imitation of Reginald Vanderbilt driving his coach. 1931Virginia (Louisiana) Q. Rev. Jan. 106 The twins lay upon the spare bed... ‘Look at dis'n all scrunched up.’ 1962W. Faulkner Reivers vii. 158 Otis was scrunched back against the wall. 1966N. S. Hayner New Patterns in Old Mexico ix. 167 One of the men approached the padre with his back scrunched up. 1976National Observer (U.S.) 12 June 22/3 The wolves stayed where they were, scrunched motionless against the far wall. 1977Rolling Stone 7 Apr. 58/1 That night Carl Sagan and I sat scrunched down in a sofa in his Pasadena apartment. |
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