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Noun crunch has 3 senses
- crunch - the sound of something crunching; "he heard the crunch of footsteps on the gravel path"
--1 is a kind of noise
- crunch - 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"
--2 is a kind of situation
- crush, crunch, compaction - the act of crushing
--3 is a kind of compression, compressing
--3 has particulars: grind, mill, pulverization, pulverisation
Verb crunch has 4 senses
- crunch, scranch, scraunch, crackle - make crunching noises; "his shoes were crunching on the gravel"
--1 is one way to make noise, resound, noise
Sample sentences:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
- crunch, cranch, craunch, grind - press or grind with a crunching noise
--2 is one way to press
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
- crunch, munch - chew noisily; "The children crunched the celery sticks"
--3 is one way to chew, masticate, manducate, jaw
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
- grind, mash, crunch, bray, comminute - reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading; "grind the spices in a mortar"; "mash the garlic"
--4 is one way to break up, fragment, fragmentize, fragmentise
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
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