crunch
verb/krʌntʃ/
/krʌntʃ/
Verb Forms
Phrasal Verbs| present simple I / you / we / they crunch | /krʌntʃ/ /krʌntʃ/ |
| he / she / it crunches | /ˈkrʌntʃɪz/ /ˈkrʌntʃɪz/ |
| past simple crunched | /krʌntʃt/ /krʌntʃt/ |
| past participle crunched | /krʌntʃt/ /krʌntʃt/ |
| -ing form crunching | /ˈkrʌntʃɪŋ/ /ˈkrʌntʃɪŋ/ |
- [transitive, intransitive] crunch (on) something to bite something noisily between your teeth when you are eating
- She crunched her apple noisily.
Extra Examples- He was crunching loudly on an apple.
- He was crunching on a piece of toast.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- loudly
- underfoot
- on
- [intransitive, transitive] crunch (something) to make a noise like something hard being pressed or crushed; to cause something to make a noise like this synonym scrunch
- The snow crunched under our feet.
- Snow crunched underfoot.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- loudly
- underfoot
- on
- [intransitive] + adv./prep. to move over a surface, making a noise like the sound of something hard being pressed or crushed
- I crunched across the gravel to the front door.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- loudly
- underfoot
- on
- [transitive] crunch something (computing) to deal with large amounts of data very quickly
- We are waiting for the results from officials who are still crunching numbers.
Word Originearly 19th cent. (as a verb): variant of 17th-cent. cranch (probably imitative), by association with crush and munch.
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