CRUNCH
6 letters
13 Scrabble points
/kɹʌntʃ/
Definition of CRUNCH
noun
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A noisy crackling sound; the sound usually associated with crunching.
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A critical moment or event.
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A problem that leads to a crisis.
verb
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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."
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To be crushed with a noisy crackling sound.
"Beetles crunched beneath the men's heavy boots as they worked."
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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."
Source: Wiktionary
Word Details
Letters
C
R
U
N
C
H
Length
6 letters
Scrabble Score
13 points