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    crunch
    [krən(t)SH]
    verb
    crunch (verb) · crunches (third person present) · crunched (past tense) · crunched (past participle) · crunching (present participle)
    1. crush (a hard or brittle foodstuff) with the teeth, making a loud but muffled grinding sound:
      "she paused to crunch a ginger snap"
      • make a crunching sound, especially when walking or driving over gravel or an icy surface:
        "footsteps began to crunch across the frozen rock" · "the snow crunched as we walked"
      • 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
    crunch (noun) · crunches (plural noun) · the crunch (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. informal
      (the crunch)
      a crucial point or situation, typically one at which a decision with important consequences must be made:
      "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.
    Origin
    early 19th century (as a verb): variant of 17th-century cranch (probably imitative), by association with crush and munch.
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    verb
    1. crush (a hard or brittle foodstuff) with the teeth, making a loud but muffled grinding sound:
      munch
      chomp
      champ
      bite
      gnaw
      masticate
      eat
      devour
      consume
      chumble
      chew noisily
      noun
      1. a crucial point or situation, typically one at which a decision with important consequences must be made:
        moment of truth
        critical point
        crux
        crisis
        zero hour
        showdown
        decision time
        point of no return
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