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crunchingly

crunchingly adverb: with a crunching sound or action.

Adverb

crunchingly (comparative more crunchingly, superlative most crunchingly)

  1. With a crunching sound or action.
    • As I stood there someone stepped crunchingly on the gravel path before the shuttered windows. I turned, and there was Pengelly.1931, Hugh Walpole, Above the Dark Tumult, page 46
    • He bites crunchingly through the breast, tearing through skin, flesh and bone till his teeth meet..1934, Henry G. Lamond, An Aviary on the Plains, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 183

Forms of crunchingly

comparativemore crunchingly
superlativemost crunchingly

Origin of crunchingly

From crunching + -ly.

Questions about crunchingly

What does crunchingly mean?
Crunchingly means with a crunching sound or action.
What part of speech is crunchingly?
Crunchingly is an adverb.

Words near crunchingly in the dictionary

  1. crunchiest
  2. crunchily
  3. crunchiness
  4. crunching
  5. crunching numbers
  6. crunchingly
  7. crunchings
  8. crunchless
  9. crunchtime
  10. crunchweed
  11. crunchy

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