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Definition: Craunch |
CraunchVerb1. 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) |
| Domain | Definition |
Mining | A piece of a vein left uncut as a support. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: CraunchSynonyms: cranch (v), crunch (v), grind (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms 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. | |
Crosswords: Craunch |
| English words defined with "craunch": Craunched, Craunching. (references) |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
craunch | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "craunch"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Greek | τραγανίζω (crunch, munch, scranch, scrunch). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | aunchcray | ||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "craunch": craunched, craunches, craunching. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words ending with "aunch": haunch. (additional references) |
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. | |
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