cronch

Verb

crunch (third-person singular simple present crunches, present participle crunching, simple past and past participle crunched)

1. To crush something, especially food, with a noisy crackling sound.
   • When I came home, Susan was watching TV with her feet up on the couch, crunching a piece of celery.
2. To be crushed with a noisy crackling sound.
   • Beetles crunched beneath the men's heavy boots as they worked.
3. (slang) To calculate or otherwise process (e.g. to crunch numbers: to perform mathematical calculations). Presumably from the sound made by mechanical calculators.
   • That metadata makes it much easier for the search engine to crunch the data for queries.
4. To grind or press with violence and noise.
   • The sound of our vessel crunching her way through the new ice is not easy to be described.1854, E.K. Kane, “The United States Grinnell Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin: a personal Narrative”, in The Living Age, page 517
5. To emit a grinding or crunching noise.
   • There were sounds in the air above his head – sounds of the crunching and rattling of the loose, smooth stones as his neighbors moved about[…]1849, Henry James, Confidence
6. (transitive) To cause the gears to emit a crunching sound by releasing the clutch before the gears are properly synchronised.

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