Crunched: meaning, definitions and examples

action, sound

Crunched is the past tense of the verb crunch, which means to crush something noisily. It often refers to the sound made when a hard object is broken or ground. This action can denote various contexts such as eating, where one might crunch on chips or snacks, or in a more figurative sense, when discussing processing data or numbers. Crunched can also imply the action of compressing or forcing something into a smaller space.

compressed, crushed, grinded, smashed.

Examples of usage

• She crunched the leaves under her feet.

• He crunched the cookies into the ice cream.

• The data was crunched to find trends.

• We crunched the numbers for the budget.

• The dog crunched on the bone loudly.