Crunch

Definition: Crunch

Crunch

Noun

1. The sound of something crunching; "he heard the crunch of footsteps on the gravel path".

2. 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".

3. The act of crushing.

Verb

1. Make crunching noises; "his shoes were crunching on the gravel".

2. Make a crunching noise, as of an engine lacking lubricants.

3. Press or grind with a crunching noise.

4. Chew noisily; "The children crunched the celery sticks".

5. Reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading; "grind the spices in a mortar"; "mash the garlic".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "crunch" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1726. (references)

Computing

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Crunch

Contraction

Render smaller, lessen, diminish, contract, draw in, narrow, coarctate; boil down; constrict, constringe; condense, compress, squeeze, corrugate, crimp, crunch, crush, crumple up, warp, purse up, pack, squeeze, stow; pinch, tighten, strangle; cramp; dwarf, bedwarf; shorten; circumscribe; restrain.

Disjunction

Sunder, divide, subdivide, sever, dissever, abscind; circumcise; cut; incide, incise; saw, snip, nib, nip, cleave, rive, rend, slit, split, splinter, chip, crack, snap, break, tear, burst; rend; rend asunder, rend in twain; wrench, rupture, shiver, cranch, crunch, craunch, chop; cut up, rip up; hack, hew, slash; whittle; haggle, hackle, discind, lacerate, scamble, mangle, gash, hash, slice.

Food

Verb: eat, feed, fare, devour, swallow, take; gulp, bolt, snap; fall to; despatch, dispatch; discuss; take down, get down, gulp down; lay in, tuck in; lick, pick, peck; gormandize; bite, champ, munch, cranch, craunch, crunch, chew, masticate, nibble, gnaw, mumble.

Pulverulence

Reduce to powder, grind to powder; pulverize, comminute, granulate, triturate, levigate; scrape, file, abrade, rub down, grind, grate, rasp, pound, bray, bruise; contuse, contund; beat, crush, cranch, craunch, crunch, scranch, crumble, disintegrate; attenuate .

Crosswords: Crunch

Hey Mikey, do you think you could crunch a little louder (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze; writing credit: Kevin Eastman; Peter Laird)

Looking good when it comes to the crunch (Buffalo Stance; performing artist: Neneh Cherry)

The Crunch Bird (1971)

Crunch and Des (1955)

The Firm: Total Body - Time Crunch Workout (1996)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Color Crunch! (Mini Bites) (reference)

• Crunch Fitness Series: Perfect Posture (reference)

• Crunch Munch (reference)

• Crunch Time: What Football Can Teach You About the Game of Life (reference)

• Crunch! (Matchbox) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Crunch - Pick Your Spot Pilates (reference)

• Crunch - The Perfect Yoga Workout (reference)

• The Best of Crunch - Step (reference)

• Crunch Yoga Mama (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Crunch Time (reference)

• Time Crunch (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Consumer Goods

• Leatherman 68010103H Crunch with Leather Sheath (reference)

• Leatherman 930601 Standard Leather Sheath for Crunch, Pulse (reference)

• Leatherman 930611 Crunch, Pulse Black Nylon Sheath (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The heavy club crashed into the side of his head with a dull crunch of bone, and Casy fell sideways out of the light

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Business

Since the so-called "bubble" economy of the late 1980s and early 1990s, Japanese banking organizations have generally tightened their lending leading to a credit crunch that has adversely affected capital spending. (references)

Industry analysts further predict an employee crunch for many Korean mass-retailers because of heightened interest among talented Korean employees in working for U.S. based retailers, stemming from the perception that U.S. based companies usually offer more advanced merchandising systems and a more dynamic corporate culture than their Korean retail companies. (references)

Economic History

Japan

Japan's credit crunch continues, and will lead to new opportunities for investment in the manufacturing sector. (references)

Korea

Slower economic growth, financial weakness among Korea's largest firms, falling exports, and a severe credit crunch have marked the Korean economy since mid-2000. (references)

Japan

The financial crunch affecting many Japanese companies now provide U.S. companies with excellent opportunities to establish, expand or purchase businesses in Japan. (references)

Political Economy

PHILIPPINES

Dampened by the global economic crunch, January-August 2001 export receipts have declined by 13 percent year-on-year, led by a 21 percent slump in revenues from electronics shipments. (references)

OMAN

Oman does not publish figures on the level of its external debt or its fund to meet future contingencies and the State General Reserve Fund (SGRF). The 1998 budget crunch required a draw down of $704 million from the SGRF in 1998. The government continued its policy of withdrawal from the SGRF in 1999, 2000 and 2001 in spite of higher oil prices. (references)

Trade

Japan

However, after the "bubble" economy of the late 1980s and early 1990s, Japanese banks have had a harder time maintaining strong capital positions, and consequently have become more restrictive, leading to a credit crunch. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "crunch": Cap'n Crunch ♦ captain Crunch ♦ credit crunch ♦ crunch question ♦ crunch up ♦ cycle crunch ♦ when it comes to crunch. Additional references.

Beginning with "crunch": crunch-point, crunch-points, crunch-time, crunch-you-upper.

Ending with "crunch": bluesy-crunch.

Albanian

përtypje (chew, mastication), përtyp (champ, chew, masticate, munch), kërcitje (clack, clash, click, clicking, crack, crackle, crackling, crash, creak, crepitation, Gride, grinding, groan, pop, pound, rap, rattle, scratch, screech, snap, splutter, squeak), kërcas (clash, click, crack, crackle, creak, crepitate, Gride, grit one's teeth, jar, scratch, scroop, snap, squeak), gërvin (burr, creak, rasp, scratch, squeak), gërvimë (burr, creak, rasp, scratch, squeak), brejtje (corrosion, edacity, gnawing, nibble, qualm), brej (canker, corrode, eat away, eat up, fret, gnaw, nibble). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مضغ بصوت عال (munch), ‏مضغ (chew, chewing, gum, masticate, mastication), ‏سحق بجلبة, ‏سحق (bash, batter, beat, beating, bow, break, crack, crumple, crush, flatten, grind, jam, levigate, mow, overwhelm, pound, pounding, powder, pulverization, pulverize, put down, quash, reduce, run over smth., scotch, slam, smash, squash, squeeze, squelch, steam roller, suppress, sweep, trample, tread, triturate, trituration), ‏طحن بأسنانه, ‏إنسحق بجلبة. (various references)

Bulgarian 

скриптя, хрускане, хрускам, хрущя (crackle). (various references)

Chinese 

咬嚼 (Crunched, Crunching). (various references)

Czech

chroupat (champ). (various references)

Danish

krokant-dessertchokolade (nut crunch chocolate), krokant med puf-ris (popped rice brittle, puffed rice crunch), krokant (nut brittle, nut crunch), blød krokant (soft crunch). (various references)

Dutch

zachte gebrande noga (soft crunch), gepofte-rijstnoga (popped rice brittle, puffed rice crunch), gebrande-nogabonbon (nut crunch chocolate), gebrande-noga-artikel (nut brittle, nut crunch). (various references)

Farsi 

صدای خردشدن چیزی زیردندان , خردشدن (Crackup, Crumble, Crush). (various references)

Finnish

rouskuttaa, rouskua, rauskuttaa, narskua (creak). (various references)

French

croquer (crush). (various references)

German

zermalmen (crush, grind, pound, shatter, smash, squelch, to crunch, to squelch), Krise (crises, crisis, depression, emergency, head, showdown), knirschen (creak, crunching, gnash, grate, grind, grit, scrunch, to crunch), böse Situation. (various references)

Greek 

κριτσανίζω, τραγάνισμα (crunching), τραγανίζω (craunch, munch, scranch, scrunch), τρίζω (chatter, crackle, creak, crepitate, grind, squeak, stridulate). (various references)

Hebrew 

לכרסם בקול, לכסוס (bite nails, chew, gnaw, grind). (various references)

Hungarian

ropogtatás (scrunch), roppanás (crack, snap, snapping), reccsenés (crack, cracking, scrunch, zip), csikorgás (creak, grating, Gride, grind, grinding, gritting, jar, jarring, rasping, screech). (various references)

Indonesian

meremukkan (crumble), menggetap (grate), memamah. (various references)

Italian

sgranocchiare (munch, nibble, scrunch), rosicchiare (gnaw, nibble), masticare rumorosamente (champ), fare scricchiolare. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

ほら貝 (abstractedly, baby, being stupefied, blankly, by ones and twos, clip joint, conch, dazedly, dimly, doing nothing, doll, dreamily, drip drip, dry and crumbling, faintly, flushingly, gradually, hazily, here and there, idling away time, in flames, indistinctly, it's getting late, little by little, munch, one after another, pimples, rip-off, slang for cunt, slightly, splash, spots, subdued, to be moved to tears, to be touched by, to become blurred, to become dim, to become sentimental, to complain, to grumble, to rip someone off, trumpet shell, unfair overcharging, vaguely, we must be getting off, whispering, with a splash), み使い (angel, be impatient, bushy, conspicuously, giant flying squirrel, incomprehensible muttering, irresistibly, itch, itchy, make good use of, make the most of, morose, munch, nausea, offended, queasy, ragged, rugged, shaggy, soy sauce, stuffy, suddenly, sullen, surge of anger, talking in sleep, to be fretful, to be in a spleen, to be in a temper, to be in ill humour, to be irritated, to be vexed, to become angry or sullen, to become serious, to blow, to feel irritated, to feel offended, to feel sick, to fret, to have the appearance of ~, to jerk off, to masturbate, to show signs of ~, to take somethingseriously, woman's desire). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ぼりぼり (munch), むしゃむしゃ (munch). (various references)

Manx

scranshal (grind, grinding, rend), craunshal, craunsh, cranshal (chew noisily, grinding, scrunch), broojey (bruise, compound, compress, cram, crush, mash, pound, press, pulverization, pulverize, push, ram, squash, squelch, stamping), broo (bruise, buzz, contusion, cram, crush, grind, pounding, press, pressure, push, ring, squash). (various references)

Norwegian

knase. (various references)

Pig Latin

unchcray.(various references)

Portuguese

triturar (basil, bray, break, bruise, champ, crush, disintegrate, grind, lead on, mash, masticate, mill, pound, powder, scrunch, spall, talcum, triturate), mastigar ruidosamente (munch, scrunch). (various references)

Romanian

crãnţãi (crackle), zdrobire (crush, squash, the wreck of his hopes), zdrobi (break, bruise, crush, defeat, demolish, destroy, grind, mash, pound, squash, squelch), sfãrâmare (smash, split), sfãrâma (batter, burst, crack, crackle, destroy, disrupt, fritter, granulate, grind, knap, mill, ruin, shatter, shiver, smash, split), scârţâit (creak, creaky, rasping, scrape, scraping, scratch, screak, squeak, squeaky), scârţâi (creak, groan, jar, rasp, scrape, scratch, screak, squeak), ronţãit (crunching), ronţãi, roade (abrade, canker, consume, corrode, eat, eat into, eat through, erode, fester, fray, fruitage, gall, gnaw, hollow, nibble, prey, wear), îşi face drum zdrobind cu piciorul. (various references)

Russian 

скрипеть (creak, scroop, squeak, squeaks), хрустеть кризис, хрустеть (crepitate, crunching, eat crisp, scrunch), хруст (crackle, crepitation), грызть (champ, gnaw). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zdrobiti (crush, triturate), krckati (crack, knap), krckanje (snack), hrskati, škripanje (creaking, scratch). (various references)

Spanish

crujido (crack, crackle, creak, creaking, gride, rattle, rustle, scrunch, squeak, swish, swoosh). (various references)

Swedish

krossa (Bray, break, bruise, crash, crush, dash, flatten, fracture, mill, pulverize, quash, scotch, scrunch, shatter, smash, squelch, steamroller), knapra på (nibble). (various references)

Turkish

zor durum (cleft stick, den, foul, grievousness, hole, impasse, lurch, nice pickle, pickle, push, sad pickle, scrape, sorry pickle, spot, tight corner, toughie), kıtır kıtır yemek, hışırtı (crackling, frou-frou, rustle, rustling, sough, swish, whisper), hışırdamak (Crinkle, rustle, sizzle, sough, swish, whisper), ezmek (Bray, comminute, crush, domineer, grind, hold down, knock over, mangle, mash, oppress, overbear, overwhelm, pound, pulverize, quash, run down, run over, scrunch, smash, squash, squeeze, squelch, squish, stamp, stave in, steamroller, stump, swat, trample, trample down, tread, tread under foot, tyrannize, weigh down), çiğnemek (break, champ, chew, chump, contravene, infringe, masticate, outrage, override, run down, run over, squelch, stamp, swamp, tramp, trample, trample down, transgress, violate), çatırtı (clack, crack, crackle, crackling noise, crash, scrunch, smash), çıtırtı (click, crackle, scrunch, splutter, sputter), çıtırdamak (crackle, scrunch, spit, splutter), çıkmaz (cleft stick, culde-sac, dead, dead end, deadlock, den, dilemma, extreme, fix, impasse, inerasable, predicament, quag, quagmire, quicksand, scrape, stalemate, toughie). (various references)

Turkmen 

y (gather), kitirdetmek, kibirdemek, hytyrdamak, hatyrdamak. (various references)

Ukrainian

хрустіти (crackle, crepitate, crisp, scrunch), хрускіт (crackling), хрумкати, тріск (clabber, crack, crackle, crash, knack, phut, pop, rattle, zip). (various references)

Vietnamese 

tiếng răng rắc, tiếng lạo xạo, sự nhai gặm, sự nghiền tiếng nghiến. (various references)

Welsh

grillian (chirp, creak, squeak). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "crunch": crunchable, crunched, cruncher, crunchers, crunches, crunchier, crunchiest, crunchily, crunchiness, crunchinesses, crunching, crunchy. (additional references)

Words ending with "crunch": scrunch. (additional references)

Words containing "crunch": scrunched, scrunches, scrunching. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Crunch" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Arunco, carancho, cernach, chunichi, coronach, counch, crach, cranachs, Cranch, croch, crounch, Cruach, cruch, crun, crunky, crunt, cruntch, frynych, kerrunch, krunch. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: churn, curch.

-2 letters: curn.

-3 letters: cur, hun, run, urn.

-4 letters: nu, uh, un.

+1 letter: craunch, crunchy, scrunch.

+2 letters: crunched, cruncher, crunches, unchurch.

+3 letters: chancrous, churching, churchman, churchmen, cranreuch, craunched, craunches, crouching, crunchers, crunchier, crunchily, crunching, crutching, nonchurch, scrunched, scrunches.

+4 letters: antichurch, churchings, cowpuncher, cranreuchs, craunching, crunchable, crunchiest, scrunching, unchurched, unchurches, unchurchly.

+5 letters: churchgoing, churchwoman, churchwomen, cowpunchers, crunchiness, interchurch, unchurching.