crunch
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
the sound of something crunching
he heard the crunch of footsteps on the gravel path
Types & categories
- noise hypernym
Related & opposite
- crunch derivation
Sense 2 verb
make a crushing noise
his shoes were crunching on the gravel
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- crunch derivation
Sense 3 noun
a critical situation that arises because of a shortage (as a shortage of time or money or resources)
an end-of-the year crunch
Types & categories
- situation hypernym
Sense 4 verb
press or grind with a crushing noise
Types & categories
- press hypernym
Related & opposite
- tyrannize also see
- pulverization derivation
Sense 5 noun
the act of crushing
Types & categories
- compressing hypernym
- pulverization hyponym
Related & opposite
Sense 6 verb
chew noisily
The children crunched the celery sticks
Types & categories
- chew hypernym
Related & opposite
Sense 7 verb
reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading
grind the spices in a mortar
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- compaction derivation
- pulverization derivation
- masher derivation
- milling machinery derivation
- molar derivation
- mash derivation
- grinding derivation
- attrition derivation
- mash derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | crunch |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | noise |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | crunch |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | noise |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | scrunch |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | situation |
| 4 | also see | Related & opposite | tyrannize |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | pulverization |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | press |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | comminute |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | crush |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | compress |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | wad |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | squeeze |
| 5 | hypernym | Types & categories | compressing |
| 5 | hyponym | Types & categories | pulverization |
| 6 | derivation | Related & opposite | munch |
| 6 | derivation | Related & opposite | muncher |
| 6 | hypernym | Types & categories | chew |
| 7 | derivation | Related & opposite | compaction |
| 7 | derivation | Related & opposite | pulverization |
| 7 | derivation | Related & opposite | masher |
| 7 | derivation | Related & opposite | milling machinery |
| 7 | derivation | Related & opposite | molar |
| 7 | derivation | Related & opposite | mash |
| 7 | derivation | Related & opposite | grinding |
| 7 | derivation | Related & opposite | attrition |
| 7 | derivation | Related & opposite | mash |
| 7 | hypernym | Types & categories | fragment |
| 7 | hyponym | Types & categories | pulp |
| 7 | hyponym | Types & categories | pestle |
| 7 | hyponym | Types & categories | mill |