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Crunched
/kɹʌntʃt/
To crush something, especially food, with a noisy crackling sound.
📖 Definitions of "Crunched"
verb
- 1
To crush something, especially food, with a noisy crackling sound.
"When I came home, Susan was watching TV with her feet up on the couch, crunching a piece of celery."
- 2
To be crushed with a noisy crackling sound.
"Beetles crunched beneath the men's heavy boots as they worked."
- 3
To calculate or otherwise process (e.g. to crunch numbers: to perform mathematical calculations). Presumably from the sound made by mechanical calculators.
"That metadata makes it much easier for the search engine to crunch the data for queries."
- 4
To grind or press with violence and noise.
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