Crunch

Quick meaning: Crunch is a verb meaning To crush something, especially food, with a noisy crackling sound.

Meaning

To crush something, especially food, with a noisy crackling sound.

More Meanings

1. To be crushed with a noisy crackling sound.
2. To grind or press with violence and noise.
3. To emit a grinding or crunching noise.
4. (automotive, transitive) To cause the gears to emit a crunching sound by releasing the clutch before the gears are properly synchronised.
5. (computing, transitive) To compress (data) using a particular algorithm, so that it can be restored by decrunching.
6. (software engineering, slang, transitive) To make employees work overtime in order to meet a deadline in the development of a project.
7. (slang) To calculate or otherwise process (e.g. to crunch numbers: to perform mathematical calculations). Presumably from the sound made by mechanical calculators.

Example Sentences

And their white tusks crunch'd o'er the whiter skull,

PackIt will not crunch executables, unless told to do so.

Beetles crunched beneath the men's heavy boots as they worked.

That metadata makes it much easier for the search engine to crunch the data for queries.

Word Forms

• crunches
• crunching
• crunched

Synonyms for crunch

Depending on context, synonyms include hashtag, crisp, crumble, crush, grind, thud.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include craunch, scranch, crackle, scrunch, crump, mash.

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