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Etymology

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un- +‎ scrunch

Verb

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

  1. (transitive, intransitive, informal) To restore or become restored from a crumpled or squeezed condition.
    • 2016, Adam Roberts, chapter 1, in The Thing Itself, →ISBN:
      The two balls of scrunched paper in the waste bin began, creakingly, to unscrunch.