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0 to crush hard food loudly between the teeth, or to make a sound as if something is being crushed or broken:
1 the sound of hard food being crushed between the teeth, or like something being crushed or broken:
2 a difficult situation that forces you to make a decision or do something:
3 an exercise in which you lie on your back on the floor with your knees bent and your feet flat on the floor, and then raise your head and shoulders:
Doing crunches every day strengthens your abdominal muscles.
4 to crush hard food loudly between the teeth, or to make a sound as if something is being crushed or broken:
5 to calculate numbers or process information:
The project seems worthwhile, but you have to crunch the numbers to see if it’s affordable.
6 a difficult situation which forces you to make a decision or act:
7 a noise that sounds as if something is being crushed or broken:
8 a situation in which there is not enough of something:
Humanity is heading for an energy crunch within a very few years.
a crunch happens/occurs The crunch occurred because irresponsible lending led to a huge debt bubble.
If we want to avoid a recurrence of this present crunch, we need to understand why it happened.
Numerous agencies are starting to feel the crunch from operating for four months at or below last year's levels.
9 when a situation becomes extremely serious and a decision must be made:
If it comes to the crunch, we'll have no alternative but to sell up.
10 to deal with data by performing a large number of calculations: