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