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
n. the act of making a crunch noise. vb. (present participle of crunch English)
Usage examples of "crunching".
They crackled annoyingly as he waded through them, booted feet crunching on the spindly mosslike grass that grew deep in the jungle.
The boat was making hideous crunching sounds as it ploughed into the frill of vegetation along the bank.
Another of the big embassy cars thumped into the rear of Monica’s car, crunching some of the bodywork.
The first strands of confidence were starting to emerge within the combined Edenist psyche as serjeants exported the feeling of sand crunching underfoot.
Where they lay across the roads, jeeps and trucks had driven straight over them, crunching parallel tyre tracks of bricks and planking deeper into the dehydrating march.
They came down on the face and shoulder of a Ringapi who was trying to aim a bow, and he fell with an ugly crunching sound.
Now he could hear bullets going by, or going thock into the hard mud-brick walls of the hospital building, or making a peculiar crunching shrush into the sacks of barley.
The sharp thudump of the second barrel's buckshot was nearly lost in the hammering of hooves, the crunching whir of the tires over sandy dirt, the creak of wood and leather and wicker.
The twenty-inch blade of his bayonet caught the savage under his short rib and impaled him across the width of his torso, a soft meaty resistance and then things crunching and popping beneath the sharp point.
The horses made sort of wet crunching sounds as they munched, snorting now and then, or shifting weight from one foot to another with a clomp sound as the hollow hoof hit the packed dirt and straw.
Beneath it went a crunching, grating sound that shivered up through the soles of their feet, the sound of a galley's light pine hull ground into pieces under the copper-sheathed oak of the ironclad's keel.
The crunching sound from its neck echoed off the stone, as did the resounding crash as the boulder bounced away.
Then came Ivan and Pikel, crunching away on every dry leaf and dead stick.
But we heard the squeal of iron tires crunching cold dry snow, heard the loose wood-and-iron rattle of the body, and the crack of leather reins on solid flesh.
I walked down the aisle, crunching dirty wet straw under my feet, and sat down.