scrunch
verb (used with object)
to crunch, crush, or crumple.
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
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She couldn't sleep; the animals were scrunching the hay as they moved, or bleating in their dreams.
From Letters from my Windmill by Alphonse Daudet