bunch
/bʌnt͡ʃ/ verb C2- To gather into a bunch.
- To gather fabric into folds.
- To form a bunch.
- To be gathered together in folds
- To protrude or swell
He/she/it bunches · Past bunched · Past participle bunched · -ing form bunching
Verb forms
- Base form
- bunch
- He/she/it
- bunches
- Past
- bunched
- Past participle
- bunched
- -ing form
- bunching
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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MacDonald sat with his chin on his hands and his great sandy eyebrows bunched into a yellow tangle.
“You are the historian of this bunch.
If yer does know him, and he’s on de square, w’y I’ll spiel yer de bunch of hot air he sent yer.”
She says she caught yer dead to rights, huggin’ a bunch o’ calico in de hot-house.
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