Crossword clues for crunched
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Crunch \Crunch\ (kr[u^]nch), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Crunched (kr[u^]ncht); p. pr. & vb. n. Crunching.] [Prob. of imitative origin; or cf. D. schransen to eat heartily, or E. scrunch.]
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To chew with force and noise; to craunch.
And their white tusks crunched o'er the whiter skull.
--Byron. -
To grind or press with violence and noise.
The ship crunched through the ice.
--Kane. -
To emit a grinding or craunching noise.
The crunching and ratting of the loose stones.
--H. James.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: crunch)
WordNet
adj. reduced to small pieces; "crunched nuts"
Usage examples of "crunched".
The carbohydrate wafer crunched loudly in the metal-walled mom and the packet of fruit conserve went down with a slurp or two.
She crunched one tentatively between her teeth, and smiled with pleasure.
Restored by a couple of sessions in the tank to heal his bums, Ford crunched another of the crispy fries.
It crunched under his feet as he eased down sideways, one careful step at a time.
She crunched the last numbers into a tractable series of equations and broke through the chaos of uncountably infinite subspaces into the blessed normalcy of RealSpace.
K’van gave him a solid slap on the shoulder and crunched over the newly fallen snow to the impressive steps leading up to Telgar Hold’s main entrance.
He wagged a finger at Kindan, eyebrows crunched tightly together in warning.
His jaws crunched in time with the little slapping waves that rode the swells.
From his gaping mouth spewed crunched popcorn, along with escaping breath from his lungs.
Steel sang on steel, then crunched into something that damped the vibrations.
If so skillful a helmsman regularly crunched into other vessels, it was indeed deliberate bullying.
She saw herself walking through a windswept landscape, knees held high as she crunched through deep snow.
When it got to the skull, it wrenched it off what was left of the spine and, holding it for a moment between its teeth as if savoring what was to come, crunched down slowly and methodically, the sound of bone splintering reverberating through the cavern.
He would rise and, naked, stare into the night, his mind crowded with the times that he had crunched across battlefield morasses, blood streaming from a multitude of wounds, slaughtering as he went.
When he raised his sword, Jon went underneath it with a sweeping blow that crunched against the back of the other boy's leg and sent him staggering.