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say it: kruhnch
crunch is a verb and noun meaning "make a crushing noise". It carries 7 recorded senses.
make a crushing noise
“his shoes were crunching on the gravel”
press or grind with a crushing noise
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”
the act of crushing
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for crunch come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.