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decrunch

decrunch verb: to decompress (data) previously compressed by crunching.

Verb

decrunch (third-person singular simple present decrunches, present participle decrunching, simple past and past participle decrunched)

  1. (ambitransitive) To decompress (data) previously compressed by crunching.
    • Several phone calls and a borrowed Mac later, I found that the single disk sent me wouldn't in any case decrunch (uncompress its data) without a sister disk — which had gone astray across the Atlantic. Such hitches are always irritating […]1993, The New York Times Book Review, volume 98, page 2
    • The executable is still decrunched in memory, so it will _use_ some extra memory but _save_ disk space.1996, Marcus Alanen, “Re: Exe Crunchers”, in comp.sys.amiga.programmer (Usenet)

Forms of decrunch

third-person singular presentdecrunches
present participledecrunching
past participledecrunched
pastdecrunched

Origin of decrunch

From de- + crunch.

Words formed from decrunch

Questions about decrunch

What does decrunch mean?
Decrunch means to decompress (data) previously compressed by crunching.
What part of speech is decrunch?
Decrunch is a verb.
What is the past tense of decrunch?
The past tense of decrunch is decrunched.

Words near decrunch in the dictionary

  1. decruits
  2. decrumb
  3. decrumbed
  4. decrumbing
  5. decrumbs
  6. decrunch
  7. decrunched
  8. decruncher
  9. decrunchers
  10. decrunches
  11. decrunching

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