Crunch

Verb

 * 1) to crush something with a noisy crackling sound, especially with reference to food
 * When I came home, Susan was watching TV with her feet up on the couch, crunching a piece of celery.
 * 1) to be crushed with a noisy crackling sound.
 * Beetles crunched beneath the men's heavy boots as they worked.
 * 1)  to calculate or otherwise process (e.g. to crunch numbers: to perform mathematical calculations)
 * That meta data makes it much easier for the search engine software to quickly crunch the data for search queries.

Noun

 * 1) A noisy crackling sound; the sound usually associated with crunching.
 * 2) A critical moment or event.
 * 3)  A form of abdominal exercise, based on a sit-up but in which the lower back remains in contact with the floor.

Derived terms

 * credit crunch
 * crunch time
 * reverse crunch

Coordinate terms

 * sit-up, trunk curl

Adjectives for Crunch
distinct; audible; sickening; clear; sharp; decisive; monotonous.

Adverbs for Crunch
hungrily; viciously; furiously; bestially; rapaciously; eagerly; greedily; distinctly; audibly; sickeningly; sharply.

Thesaurus
appulse, atomize, bang, bang into, belch, bind, bite, blare, blat, bray, break into pieces, break to pieces, break up, brunt, bulldozing, bulling, bump, bump into, burr, buzz, cackle, cannon, carambole, carom, carom into, caw, champ, chaw, chew, chirr, chomp, chump, clang, clangor, clank, clash, climacteric, clutch, collide, collision, come into collision, complication, concuss, concussion, confront each other, convergence of events, crack up, crack-up, crash, crash into, craunch, crisis, critical juncture, critical moment, critical point, croak, crossroads, crucial period, crump, crush, crux, cut to pieces, dash into, demolish, diffuse, disperse, disrupt, embarrassing position, embarrassment, emergency, encounter, exigency, extremity, fall foul of, fine how-do-you-do, fission, foul, fragment, grate, grind, groan, growl, grumble, hammering, hell to pay, high pressure, hinge, hit, hit against, hobble, hot water, how-do-you-do, hurt, hurtle, imbroglio, impact, imperativeness, impinge, impingement, jam, jangle, jar, juncture, knock, knock against, make mincemeat of, masticate, mauling, meet, meeting, mess, mince, mix, moment of truth, morass, munch, onslaught, parlous straits, pass, percuss, percussion, pickle, pinch, plight, predicament, press, pressure, pretty pass, pretty pickle, pretty predicament, pulverize, push, quagmire, quicksand, ramming, rasp, repercussion, rub, ruminate, run into, scatter, scranch, scrape, scratch, scrunch, shatter, shiver, shock, showdown, sideswipe, slam into, sledgehammering, slough, smack into, smash, smash into, smash up, smash-up, smashing, snarl, snore, splinter, spot, squash, squeeze, squish, stew, sticky wicket, strait, straits, stress, strike, strike against, swamp, tension, thrusting, tight spot, tight squeeze, tightrope, tricky spot, turn, turning point, twang, unholy mess, urgency, whomp

Verb

 * Bulgarian: хрускам
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 * Italian: ,
 * Russian: хрустеть
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 * Finnish: murskaantua
 * Italian: spiaccicarsi


 * Russian: хрустеть


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Noun

 * Bulgarian: хрускане
 * Finnish: rouske, ratina


 * Russian: хруст


 * Bulgarian: критичен момент