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   Crunch

   /krən(t)SH/

   

   verb

   • 1. crush (a hard or brittle foodstuff) with the teeth, making a loud but muffled grinding sound: "she paused to crunch a ginger snap" Similar munchchew noisilychompchampbitegnawmasticateeatdevourconsumerare:chumble
   • ▪ make a crunching sound, especially when walking or driving over gravel or an icy surface: "footsteps began to crunch across the frozen rock"
   • ▪ strike or crush noisily: "two cab drivers who had just crunched fenders"
   • 2. process large amounts of information or perform operations of great complexity, especially by computer: "computers crunch data from real-world observations"

   noun

   • 1. a loud muffled grinding sound made when crushing, moving over, or hitting something: "Marco's fist struck Brian's nose with a crunch"
   • 2. a crucial point or situation, typically one at which a decision with important consequences must be made: informal "when it comes to the crunch you chicken out"
   • ▪ a severe shortage of money or credit: "the Fed would do what it could to ease America's credit crunch"
   • 3. a physical exercise designed to strengthen the abdominal muscles; a sit-up.

   Word Origin early 19th century (as a verb): variant of 17th-century cranch (probably imitative), by association with crush and munch.

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