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cranch

cranch is the alternative form of craunch.

Meaning of craunch

Verb

craunch (third-person singular simple present craunches, present participle craunching, simple past and past participle craunched)

  1. (archaic, transitive) To crush with the teeth; to chew with violence and noise; to crunch.
    • She would craunch the wing of a lark, bones and all, between her teeth, although it were nine times as large as that of a full-grown turkey; and put a bit of bread into her mouth as big as two twelve-penny loaves.1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume I, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part II (A Voyage to Brobdingnag)

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Forms of cranch

third-person singular presentcranches
present participlecranching
past participlecranched
pastcranched

Questions about cranch

What is cranch the alternative form of?
Cranch is the alternative form of craunch.

Words near cranch in the dictionary

  1. crance iron
  2. crance irons
  3. crancelin
  4. crancelins
  5. crances
  6. cranch
  7. cranched
  8. cranchee
  9. cranchees
  10. cranches
  11. cranchid

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cranch (page history and authors); craunch (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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