Word.ws English Dictionary

decrunched

decrunched is the simple past and past participle of decrunch.

Meaning of decrunch

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

Questions about decrunched

What is decrunched the simple past and past participle of?
Decrunched is the simple past and past participle of decrunch.

Words near decrunched in the dictionary

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

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: decrunched (page history and authors); decrunch (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “decrunched.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/decrunched. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.