0 past simple and past participle of crunch
1 to crush hard food loudly between the teeth, or to make a sound as if something is being crushed or broken:
It is a case of a couple of crunched mudguards and a lot of outraged feelings.
A grotesque looking automaton that looked like several steel sheets had been crunched together to form a humanoid appearance.
The computer crunched numbers, not words, until writers saw it as the next writing machine.
Nothing crunched or wiggling in the test.
Amiga supported packed or crunched (meaning lightly or heavily compressed) executables, which were common in the age of floppy disks, when disk space and memory conservation was critical.
