unscrunch

English

Etymology

un- +‎ scrunch

Verb

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.