crunch

1. 1.

   the sound of something crunching

   “he heard the crunch of footsteps on the gravel path”

   Broadernoise
2. 2.

   a critical situation that arises because of a shortage (as a shortage of time or money or resources)

   “an end-of-the year crunch”

   “a financial crunch”

   Broadersituation
3. 3.

   the act of crushing

   Synonymscrushcompaction

   Broadercompression

   Narrowergrind

Other forms of crunch

plural

crunches·

past tense

crunched·

present participle

crunching·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about crunch

What does crunch mean?

crunch means "make a crushing noise". That is the primary sense; the word has 7 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in crunch?

crunch has 1 syllable: crunch. In IPA it is /ˈkɹʌntʃ/.

What is another word for crunch?

Close synonyms include scranch, scraunch, crackle, cranch, craunch. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is crunch a common word?

crunch is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.