What does "crunch" mean?
Crunch: To grind or press with violence and noise. The ship crunched through the ice. Kane.
Additional senses
- 2.To emit a grinding or craunching noise. The crunching and ratting of the loose stones. H. James.
- 3.To crush with the teeth; to chew with a grinding noise; to craunch; as, to crunch a biscuit.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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