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What does crunch mean?
Definitions in simple English

crunch Verb

— If you crunch something, you crush it and it makes a breaking noise. Broken glass crunched beneath his shoes. The sound of Hannah crunching her chips in the quiet church seemed very loud.

crunch Noun

— A crunch is the sound of something hard, like nuts, being crushed. You can hear the crunch of Hannah's chips. — A crunch is a difficult time under a lot of pressure.

crunch

— verb make a crushing noise his shoes were crunching on the gravel — noun the sound of something crunching he heard the crunch of footsteps on the gravel path — noun 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 — verb chew noisily The children crunched the celery sticks — verb (= grind) press or grind with a crushing noise — noun (= crush) the act of crushing — verb (= grind, mash) reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading grind the spices in a mortar mash the garlic

Synonyms crunch synonyms

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munch grind creak crackle crack craunch chew squeak mash crush gnaw cranch snap scrunch scranch grit grate gnash break bray scraunch scratch masticate crisis compaction comminute chomp bite beat stamp squelch squeeze squash smash show-down shortage shipwreck serrated rustle pulverize pulverise process pound overwhelm overbear nosh nibble mush mince maunch

Topics crunch topics

What do people use crunch to talk about?
Person Sense, perceive Hear

Types of sounds
Daily life Food Eat

Bite, chew
Physical actions Move Manner of movement

Move noisily

Conjugation crunch conjugation

How do you conjugate crunch?

crunch · verb

Examples crunch examples

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Movie subtitles

Crunch?
Crunch, line them up!
Nothing, Crunch.
Crunch, my father.
Crunch and Goon and everybody!
Can I have a Crunch, please?
HE GASPS, BONES CRUNCH Look at yourself.
Right, here is the crunch.
Ease her into gear, you don't crunch it.
And when the crunch comes, we're there in person, Ready to risk our necks.
Let's crunch our hands with this stone.
It is a crunch.
Crunch it right through.
Jesus Christ in a crunch!
Jasper, the snake came crawling along in the desert, wound itself around the barrel, and then, crunch!
Crunch, line them up.
Crunch and Goon and everybody.
There was nothing to be heard, save the occasional murmur of soldiers' voices and the crunch of boots on the loose soil.
And then suddenly I hear the rattle of rifle bolts and the clink of steel helmets and then the crunch of marching feet, as men all around me march off to the front.
Crunch! Crunch! Crunch!
Each seismic crunch of the boot draws the war closer and closer.
Oh God, soon it will be my turn and my feet, too. Crunch! Crunch!
Morning. - Can I have a Crunch, please?
Crunch it.
Didn't you hear that dead crunch?
At least when it comes to the crunch, they'll be voting for me and not Rolus.
A Nestle Crunch bar, hardly even been touched.
You got any Double Crunch?
Piquant, with a very pleasant crunch.
It's not crunch time yet, Mr. Kim.

News and current affairs

For starters, the eurozone crisis is worsening, as the euro remains too strong, front-loaded fiscal austerity deepens recession in many member countries, and a credit crunch in the periphery and high oil prices undermine prospects of recovery.
Measured this way, the scary eco-crunch disappears.
Barcelona - The financial crisis, credit crunch, and ensuing economic downturn have severely damaged the credibility of financial markets, institutions, and traders.
While its depth and length cannot be predicted, a continued credit crunch, sovereign-debt problems, lack of competitiveness, and fiscal austerity imply a serious downturn.
Instead, as the credit crunch and housing price decline continue, an epic mortgage bailout appears increasingly likely, possibly costing US taxpayers a trillion dollars or more.
Additional wage cuts will not help export-oriented companies, which are mired in a credit crunch.
So the credit crunch will not ease quickly.
Moreover, money markets, especially in Europe, remain traumatized by the festering global credit crunch.
Sixth, while regulatory reform that increases the liquidity and capital ratios for financial institutions is necessary, those higher ratios should be phased in gradually to prevent a further worsening of the credit crunch.
The fact that there is even a small liquidity crunch for banks implies larger liquidity crunches for less intensively regulated financial institutions, and even greater liquidity crunches for manufacturing and real-estate companies.
Bad banks that are constructed generously enough to provide banks with hidden equity injections are one way to avoid or mitigate the credit crunch.
This type of rescue strategy also makes it possible to increase the required supervisory equity-asset ratios of banks in the midst of the crisis without risking a credit crunch.
Insolvency in the financial sector spills into other sectors in the form of a credit crunch, because Japanese banks are unwilling to lend money.
Quick, forceful restructuring will help end the credit crunch and lay the base for renewed growth.
And the credit crunch for non-investment-grade firms and smaller firms, which rely mostly on access to bank loans rather than capital markets, is still severe.
This caused a credit crunch and prolonged deflation in the late 1990's, as the central government tried to clean up the mess.
Meanwhile, the credit crunch in the eurozone periphery is intensifying: thanks to the ECB long-term cheap loans, banks there don't have a liquidity problem now, but they do have a massive capital shortage.
To avoid an additional credit crunch as banks deleverage, banks should be given some short-term forbearance on capital and liquidity requirements.
In today's credit crunch, as in the Great Depression, central banks lend at practically zero interest rates.
Banks would scale down their balance sheets in proportion to their reported equity losses and exacerbate the credit crunch from which the world is already suffering today.
America's financial crisis has triggered a severe credit crunch that is making the US recession worse, while the deepening recession is leading to larger losses in financial markets - thus undermining the wider economy.

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