crunched

[kɹʌntʃt]

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crunch

An object that's been pressed or crushed becomes crunched.

When you eat an apple and bite into it with your teeth, but then realize it was harder than expected and some of it gets mashed between your teeth, that feeling is like being crunched. If someone steps on a bug accidentally, the poor little thing might get crunched. Crunchy foods are often eaten because they provide a satisfying texture when you crunch them in your mouth - think carrots or chips. Sometimes people use crunched to describe something that's not working properly, like "the system got crunched" meaning it slowed down or stopped working for a bit.

How common is "crunched"?

Word crunched is considered rare in modern English.
It appears most frequently in fiction texts and less often in other writings.

Definitions

verb

To crush something, especially food, with a noisy crackling sound.
Example: When I came home, Susan was watching TV with her feet up on the couch, crunching a piece of celery.
To be crushed with a noisy crackling sound.
Example: Beetles crunched beneath the men's heavy boots as they worked.
To calculate or otherwise process (e.g. to crunch numbers: to perform mathematical calculations). Presumably from the sound made by mechanical calculators.
Example: That metadata makes it much easier for the search engine to crunch the data for queries.
To grind or press with violence and noise.
To emit a grinding or crunching noise.
To compress (data) using a particular algorithm, so that it can be restored by decrunching.
To make employees work overtime in order to meet a deadline in the development of a project.

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