bone-crunching
bone-crunching adjective: very violent or hard, as an impact.
Adjective
bone-crunching (comparative more bone-crunching, superlative most bone-crunching)
- Very violent or hard, as an impact.
- Indeed, when baby-voiced Teresa describes the bone-crunching finishes in her new home, a 12,000-square-foot French chateau simulacrum that’s “all granite, marble and onyx,” and avers her commitment to the brand-spanking new (“I just skeeve looking at other people’s houses,” she says.2009 May 28, Penelope Green, “Jersey Girls, Nesting”, in New York Times
- The bone-crunching AC/DC classic Back In Black landed at number six, followed by Metallica's Enter Sandman and the chiming riff of The Beatles' Day Tripper at eight.2009 November 27, “Jimi Hendrix's Voodoo Child has 'best guitar riff'”, in BBC
Forms of bone-crunching
| comparative | more bone-crunching |
|---|---|
| superlative | most bone-crunching |
Questions about bone-crunching
- What does bone-crunching mean?
- Bone-crunching means very violent or hard, as an impact.
- What part of speech is bone-crunching?
- Bone-crunching is an adjective.
Words near bone-crunching in the dictionary
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