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crunch

PRIMARY MEANINGS OF: crunch

1
 vn
reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading
the sound of something crunching
2
 n
a critical situation that arises because of a shortage (as a shortage of time or money or resources)
FULL DEFINITIONS OF: crunch
1

v reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading

Synonyms:
bray, comminute, grind, mash
Types:
pulp
reduce to pulp
pestle
grind, mash or pulverize in a mortar
mill
grind with a mill
Type of:
break up, fragment, fragmentise, fragmentize
break or cause to break into pieces

v press or grind with a crushing noise

Synonyms:
cranch, craunch, grind
Type of:
press
exert pressure or force to or upon

v chew noisily

“The children crunched the celery sticks”
Synonyms:
munch
Type of:
chew, jaw, manducate, masticate
chew (food); to bite and grind with the teeth

v make a crushing noise

“his shoes were crunching on the gravel”
Synonyms:
crackle, scranch, scraunch
Types:
crump, scrunch, thud
make a noise typical of an engine lacking lubricants
Type of:
make noise, noise, resound
emit a noise

n the sound of something crunching

“he heard the crunch of footsteps on the gravel path”
Type of:
noise
sound of any kind (especially unintelligible or dissonant sound)

n the act of crushing

Synonyms:
compaction, crush
Types:
grind, mill, pulverisation, pulverization
the act of grinding to a powder or dust
Type of:
compressing, compression
applying pressure
2

n a critical situation that arises because of a shortage (as a shortage of time or money or resources)

“an end-of-the year crunch”
“a financial crunch”
Type of:
situation
a complex or critical or unusual difficulty
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