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decrunching

decrunching is the present participle and gerund 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 decrunching

What is decrunching the present participle and gerund of?
Decrunching is the present participle and gerund of decrunch.

Words near decrunching in the dictionary

  1. decrunch
  2. decrunched
  3. decruncher
  4. decrunchers
  5. decrunches
  6. decrunching
  7. decrust
  8. decrustation
  9. decrustations
  10. decrusted
  11. decrusting

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