Crunching
/ˈkɹʌntʃɪŋ/
Last Updated: January 2, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Scrabble:17 ptsWWF:22 pts9 letters
Definition of Crunching
verb
- 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."
- To be crushed with a noisy crackling sound.
"Beetles crunched beneath the men's heavy boots as they worked."
- 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."
- To grind or press with violence and noise.
- To emit a grinding or crunching noise.
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