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    crunch
    [krən(t)SH]
    verb
    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"
    Origin
    early 19th century (as a verb): variant of 17th-century cranch (probably imitative), by association with crush and munch.
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    1. crush (a hard or brittle foodstuff) with the teeth, making a loud but muffled grinding sound:
       
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    1. Crushing hard food loudly between the teeth
      crunch verb [ I or T ] uk / krʌntʃ / us / krʌntʃ / to crush hard food loudly between the teeth, or to make a sound as if something is being crushed or broken:
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      to crush hard food loudly between the teeth, or to make a sound as if something is being crushed or broken:
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