Crunched

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Crunch \Crunch\ (kr[u^]nch), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Crunched}
     (kr[u^]ncht); p. pr. & vb. n. {Crunching}.] [Prob. of
     imitative origin; or cf. D. schransen to eat heartily, or E.
     scrunch.]
     1. To chew with force and noise; to craunch.
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              And their white tusks crunched o'er the whiter
              skull.                                --Byron.
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     2. To grind or press with violence and noise.
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              The ship crunched through the ice.    --Kane.
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     3. To emit a grinding or craunching noise.
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              The crunching and ratting of the loose stones. --H.
                                                    James.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  crunched
       adj : reduced to small pieces; "crunched nuts"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  22 Moby Thesaurus words for "crunched":
     anamorphous, askew, asymmetric, bent, bowed, cockeyed, contorted,
     crazy, crooked, crumpled, deviative, distorted, irregular,
     labyrinthine, lopsided, nonsymmetric, one-sided, sprung, tortuous,
     twisted, unsymmetric, warped