| 单词 | crunch |
| 释义 | crunch (once / 1562 pages) 1vn 2n When you crunch something, you grind it into tiny pieces, often with your teeth. You can also crunch whole spices into smaller bits with a mortar and pestle. A horse might crunch an apple, and on a summer day you might drink a glass of iced tea and crunch the ice between your teeth. You could also describe the sound of gravel underneath the wheels of a car or feet walking in fresh snow as a crunch. A figurative crunch is a deadline or crisis: "When it came to the crunch, I just voted for the person who would do the least harm." WORD FAMILYcrunch: crunched, crunches, crunching USAGE EXAMPLESTo the layperson, this is one of Big Data’s stranger qualities—that the portrait of an individual emerges from the crunched crowd. The New Yorker(Dec 31, 2016) Prices are forecast to rise since the cash crunch is pinching supplies of all sorts of goods. Seattle Times(Dec 29, 2016) So in any crunch, he sides with the settlers, and they keep pushing. Seattle Times(Dec 29, 2016) 1 1v reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading Syn|Hypo|Hyper bray, comminute, grind, mash pulp reduce to pulp pestlegrind, mash or pulverize in a mortar millgrind with a mill break up, fragment, fragmentise, fragmentize break or cause to break into pieces 2v press or grind with a crushing noise Syn|Hyper cranch, craunch, grind press exert pressure or force to or upon 3v chew noisily The children crunched the celery sticks Syn|Hyper munch chew, jaw, manducate, masticate chew (food); to bite and grind with the teeth 4v make a crushing noise his shoes were crunching on the gravel Syn|Hypo|Hyper crackle, scranch, scraunch crump, scrunch, thud make a noise typical of an engine lacking lubricants make noise, noise, resound emit a noise 5n the sound of something crunching he heard the crunch of footsteps on the gravel path Hyper noise sound of any kind (especially unintelligible or dissonant sound) 6n the act of crushing 2Syn|Hypo|Hyper compaction, crush grind, mill, pulverisation, pulverization the act of grinding to a powder or dust compressing, compression applying pressure n 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 Hyper situation a complex or critical or unusual difficulty |
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