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21crunch — [[t]krʌntʃ[/t]] v. t. 1) to chew with a sharp crushing noise 2) to crush or grind noisily 3) cvb to condense: Crunch the first page into one paragraph[/ex] 4) bus to squeeze financially 5) cmp to manipulate or process (numbers or data)… …
22crunch — {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} noun Crunch is used after these nouns: ↑credit {{Roman}}II.{{/Roman}} verb ADVERB ▪ loudly ▪ underfoot ▪ Snow crunched underfoot. PREPOSITION …
23crunch — [krʌntʃ] verb I 1) [I/T] to bite hard food, causing it to make a loud noise 2) [I] to make a noise like something being crushed II noun [singular] crunch [krʌntʃ] the noise that something makes when you crunch it • if it comes to the crunch… …
24crunch — I. verb Etymology: alteration of craunch Date: 1706 intransitive verb 1. to chew or press with a crushing noise 2. to make one s way with a crushing noise transitive verb 1. to chew, press, or grind with a crunching sound 2. process; …
25crunch — /krʌntʃ / (say krunch) verb (t) 1. to crush with the teeth; chew with a crushing noise. 2. to crush or grind noisily. –verb (i) 3. to chew with a crushing sound. 4. to produce, or proceed with, a crushing noise. –noun 5. the act or sound of… …
26crunch — n. a crisis; a time of pressure or tightness, especially of a budget. □ We seem to be in a crunch of one kind or another all the time. □ The budget crunch meant that we couldn’t take trips to Europe anymore …
27crunch — n Climax, critical point. Bertie is someone you can count on in a crunch. 1930s …
28crunch — See the crunch …
29crunch — verb 1》 crush (a hard or brittle foodstuff) with the teeth, making a loud grinding sound. 2》 make or move with a loud grinding sound. 3》 (especially of a computer) process (large quantities of data). noun 1》 a crunching sound. 2》 (the crunch)… …
30crunch — 1. verb she hungrily crunched the apple Syn: munch, chomp, bite into 2. noun, informal when the crunch comes, she ll be forced to choose Syn: moment of truth, critical point, crux, crisis, decision time, zero hour, point of no return; …
