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Crunch   /krəntʃ/   Listen
Crunch

noun
1.
The sound of something crunching.
2.
A critical situation that arises because of a shortage (as a shortage of time or money or resources).  "A financial crunch"
3.
The act of crushing.  Synonyms: compaction, crush.
verb
(past & past part. crunched; pres. part. crunching)
1.
Make a crushing noise.  Synonyms: crackle, scranch, scraunch.
2.
Press or grind with a crushing noise.  Synonyms: cranch, craunch, grind.
3.
Chew noisily.  Synonym: munch.
4.
Reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading.  Synonyms: bray, comminute, grind, mash.  "Mash the garlic"



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"Crunch" Quotes from Famous Books



... signs which she had brought with her vanished, she determined to do nothing more than place her gift by his bed and depart. Accordingly she emptied the basket, and started and paused every time she heard but a grain of sand crunch under her feet. When she had laid out all the fruit and passed her hand tenderly over each, she grew more and more peaceful and calm; she felt herself so strangely bound to death that she dismissed the thought of leaving this room with a feeling akin to fear, and prepared to do what possessed her ...
— The German Classics, v. 20 - Masterpieces of German Literature • Various
... yards deep, in every stage of destruction. There they lie grinding to dust; and every gale brings in fresh myriads from the inexhaustible sea-world, as if Death could be never tired of devouring, or God of making. The brain grows dizzy and tired, as one's feet crunch over the endless ...
— Prose Idylls • Charles Kingsley
... crunch went the snow as they tramped steadily, with the surface curving slowly upward, till all at once there was a slip, a thud, and a scramble, Gedge was down, and he began to glide, but checked himself with ...
— Fix Bay'nets - The Regiment in the Hills • George Manville Fenn
... meaen, When I've a-brought ye such a bunch O' theaese nice ginger-nuts to crunch? An' here, John, here! you teaeke ...
— Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect • William Barnes
... enough to send the boat over, and she had already a dangerous lot of water surging among the ballast; while, when they were forced to put her head to the wind, she drifted with a heavily running tide, and right to leeward was a long reef of rocks that would inevitably crunch her into matchwood. The younger brothers said not a word, but looked at Rob, ready to obey his slightest gesture, and Rob stood by the mast calling out from time ...
— The Beautiful Wretch; The Pupil of Aurelius; and The Four Macnicols • William Black


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