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crunch

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of crunch

1 a falling short of an essential or desirable amount or number

  • a severe energy crunch that resulted in long lines at the gas pumps
Synonyms of crunch

dearth, deficiency, deficit, drought (also drouth), failure, famine, inadequacy, inadequateness, insufficiency, lack, lacuna, paucity, pinch, poverty, scantiness, scarceness, scarcity, shortage, undersupply, want
Words Related to crunch

absence, omission

meagerness, poorness, skimpiness

necessity, need, privation
Near Antonyms of crunch

bountifulness, copiousness

excess, overabundance, oversupply, surfeit, surplus
Antonyms of crunch

abundance, adequacy, amplitude, opulence, plenitude, plenty, sufficiency, wealth

2 a time or state of affairs requiring prompt or decisive action

  • a player who's always good in a crunch, like when we need a goal to win the soccer match
Synonyms of crunch

boiling point, breaking point, clutch, conjuncture, crisis, crossroad(s), crunch time, Dunkirk, emergency, exigency, extremity, flash point, head, juncture, tinderbox, zero hour
Words Related to crunch

contingency, possibility

climax, turning point

happening, landmark, milestone

condition, pass, situation, strait

deadlock, impasse, stalemate

corner, fix, hole, hot water, jam, last ditch, pinch, predicament, scrape, spot

eleventh hour, last minute
Phrases Synonymous with crunch

moment of truth, point of no return

crunch

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of crunch

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
Synonyms of crunch

gnash, grate, grind, grit, scrape, scrunch
Words Related to crunch

creak, groan, moan, rasp, scratch, whine

clash, collide, jangle, jar

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