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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



... echar!" as some one passed beneath an opening above, of "Ahora si!" when he was out of danger; the shrill warning whistling of the peons echoing back and forth through the galleries and labyrinthian side tunnels, as the crunch of shoes along the track announced the approach of some boss; the shouting of the peons "throwing" a loaded car along the track through the heavy smoke-laden air, so thick with the smell of powder and thin with oxygen that even experienced bosses developed raging headaches, and the Beau Brummel ...
— Tramping Through Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras - Being the Random Notes of an Incurable Vagabond • Harry A. Franck

... and nearer; and then there was a rattling among dead trees, and the quickly-repeated 'crunch, crunch,' as of the hoofs of some animal breaking through frozen snow. The next moment a deer dashed past in full run, and took to the ice. It was a large buck, of the 'Caribou' or reindeer species (Cervus ...
— The Hunters' Feast - Conversations Around the Camp Fire • Mayne Reid

... Crunch, squeak, 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 the ...
— Fix Bay'nets - The Regiment in the Hills • George Manville Fenn

... officers—yes, and some of the men—speechified to all and sundry about war with England. They shouted, "Down with England!"—"Down with Washington!"—"Hurrah for France and the Republic!" I couldn't make sense of it. I wanted to get out from that crunch of swords and petticoats and sit in a field. One of the gentlemen said to me, "Is that a genuine cap o' Liberty you're wearing?" 'Twas Aunt Cecile's red one, and pretty near wore out. "Oh yes!" I says, "straight from France." "I'll give you a shilling for it," he says, and with ...
— Rewards and Fairies • Rudyard Kipling

... hopefully you munch The flinty biscuit, watching whale or seal, Or listening, undaunted, to the crunch Of ice-floes at the keel, Say, Sir Intrepid! shall you really think You pioneer the navies of the world? Not while the chink Of well-housed dollars sounds so pleasantly, And safer tracks map out the treacherous ...
— Punchinello, Vol. 1, No. 5, April 30, 1870 • Various


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