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Craunch

Definition: Craunch

Craunch

Verb

1. Press or grind with a crunching noise.

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

Note: Craunch \Craunch\, transitive verb & intransitive verb. [imperfect & past participle. Craunched; Craunching.]. (Websters 1913)


Specialty Definition: Craunch

DomainDefinition

Mining

A piece of a vein left uncut as a support. (references)

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

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Synonyms: Craunch

Synonyms: cranch (v), crunch (v), grind (v). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Craunch

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

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, shatter, 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 .

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Craunch

English words defined with "craunch": Craunched, Craunching. (references)

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Craunch

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

craunch

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Craunch

Language Translations for "craunch"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Greek 

  

τραγανίζω (crunch, munch, scranch, scrunch). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

aunchcray

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Craunch

Derivations

Words beginning with "craunch": craunched, craunches, craunching. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Craunch"

Words ending with "aunch": haunch. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Craunch

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-c-h-n-r-u"

-1 letter: cranch, crunch, raunch.

-2 letters: churn, curch, nucha, ranch.

-3 letters: arch, carn, char, curn, narc.

-4 letters: arc, can, car, cur, hun, nah, rah, ran, run, urn.

-5 letters: ah, an, ar, ha, na, nu, uh, un.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-c-h-n-r-u"
 

+2 letters: chancrous, churchman, cranreuch, craunched, craunches.

 

+3 letters: antichurch, cranreuchs, craunching, crunchable.

 

+4 letters: churchwoman.

 

+5 letters: buccaneerish, churchianity, churchwarden, countermarch.

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

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Translations: Modern
6. Derivations
7. Rhymes
8. Anagrams
9. Bibliography


  

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