Question 1 · Quick check
crunch
CEFRB1
/kɹʌnt͡ʃ/
verb · noun
Türkçe translations
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In plain English
- 01
verb
To crush something noisily between your teeth or under pressure.
- 02
noun
A loud sound made when something hard is crushed.
Examples
The recession has put the crunch on wage laborers.
I crunch through the snow.
At a glance
Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale
- Senses
- 5
- Parts of speech
- 2
- Citations
- 5
- Synonyms
- 5
Deep Dive
verb
Extra meaningsTo be crushed with a noisy crackling sound.
To calculate or otherwise process (e.g. to crunch numbers: to perform mathematical calculations). Presumably from the sound made by mechanical calculators.
To crush something, especially food, with a noisy crackling sound.
More examples
In contextBeetles crunched beneath the men's heavy boots as they worked.
That metadata makes it much easier for the search engine to crunch the data for queries.
When I came home, Susan was watching TV with her feet up on the couch, crunching a piece of celery.
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Origin
verb
From earlier craunch, cranch, of imitative origin.