as in scraped
to press or strike against or together so as to make a scraping sound I could hear the bicycle gears crunch as I shifted the derailleur
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Recent Examples of crunched Instead, Horcoff stepped up to avoid Buckberger’s stick and, with all his weight, crunched down with his right foot. —
Troy Renck, Denver Post, 13 Apr. 2026 Our data pal Rahul Deshpande (a Tech grad, obviously) crunched some numbers … and there are a lot of minutes going out the window. —Tyler Estep, AJC.com, 8 Apr. 2026 On break point, Sabalenka crunched a backhand winner. —CBS News, 29 Mar. 2026 Even with a resolution to the war, corporate margins could be crunched, or prices passed through, resulting in a rebound in inflation, neither of which is good for stocks. —Zev Fima, CNBC, 25 Mar. 2026 Disney’s fiscal year ends in the fall, but THR crunched the numbers for calendar year 2025 to use figures for the same period as the company’s peers. —Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 17 Mar. 2026 Like the hoods of two cars in a traffic accident, the continents crunched together, simultaneously shortening and flexing. —Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 6 Mar. 2026 When the numbers were crunched, Bogotá, Colombia, took the crown as the most authentic city in the world. —Lydia Price, Travel + Leisure, 20 Feb. 2026 To put this spending into perspective, Jefferies analysts crunched the numbers on flight costs. —Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 18 Feb. 2026
Troy Renck, Denver Post, 13 Apr. 2026 Our data pal Rahul Deshpande (a Tech grad, obviously) crunched some numbers … and there are a lot of minutes going out the window. —Tyler Estep, AJC.com, 8 Apr. 2026 On break point, Sabalenka crunched a backhand winner. —CBS News, 29 Mar. 2026 Even with a resolution to the war, corporate margins could be crunched, or prices passed through, resulting in a rebound in inflation, neither of which is good for stocks. —Zev Fima, CNBC, 25 Mar. 2026 Disney’s fiscal year ends in the fall, but THR crunched the numbers for calendar year 2025 to use figures for the same period as the company’s peers. —Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 17 Mar. 2026 Like the hoods of two cars in a traffic accident, the continents crunched together, simultaneously shortening and flexing. —Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 6 Mar. 2026 When the numbers were crunched, Bogotá, Colombia, took the crown as the most authentic city in the world. —Lydia Price, Travel + Leisure, 20 Feb. 2026 To put this spending into perspective, Jefferies analysts crunched the numbers on flight costs. —Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 18 Feb. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for crunched
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Here, fabrics are scraped, scratched, patched, bleached, ripped and painted to signify the passage of time.— Angela Velasquez, Footwear News, 20 Apr. 2026
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LinkedIn says Teamfluence distributed a browser extension that scraped LinkedIn user data in violation of the user agreement and that its LinkedIn accounts were suspended.— Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 8 Apr. 2026
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But the Olympic debutant gritted her teeth and tried to forget about her throbbing, bruised knee.— Charlotte Harpur, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2026
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The 6-foot-6, 260-pound Westlake graduate missed just one game earlier this season but gritted his way through an undisclosed injury.— Thomas Jones, Austin American Statesman, 12 Nov. 2025
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“Crunched.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.grautoblog.com/thesaurus/crunched. Accessed 26 Apr. 2026.
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