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
Island Records emerged victorious, and despite being crunched for time, Thrice’s 2003 major label debut, The Artist in the Ambulance, became a foundational record to the post-hardcore subgenre.
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Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 30 Sep. 2025
Sumac slush crunched underfoot.
—Literary Hub, 29 Sep. 2025
At the time of Raya’s initial loan from Brentford, The Athletic crunched his Premier League numbers.
—Mark Carey, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2025
Just as the rise in beef prices crunched margins, their decline should serve up margin expansion.
—Zev Fima, CNBC, 10 Sep. 2025
Scientists have crunched the numbers, however.
—Brenda Goodman, CNN Money, 9 Sep. 2025
At the same time, the Home Buyer Scarcity Index, which measures how crunched an area is for purchasable homes, has spiked.
—Nigel Chiwaya, NBC news, 28 Aug. 2025
The Spaniard crunched some decent Bellucci groundstrokes with turbo boost borrowed from Sinner’s Wimbledon final range.
—Tim Ellis, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2025
For tiny messes and crunched closet spaces, handheld vacuums come in—some might even say—more handy than an upright cordless vac.
—Yelena Moroz Alpert, Architectural Digest, 8 Aug. 2025
Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 30 Sep. 2025
Sumac slush crunched underfoot.
—Literary Hub, 29 Sep. 2025
At the time of Raya’s initial loan from Brentford, The Athletic crunched his Premier League numbers.
—Mark Carey, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2025
Just as the rise in beef prices crunched margins, their decline should serve up margin expansion.
—Zev Fima, CNBC, 10 Sep. 2025
Scientists have crunched the numbers, however.
—Brenda Goodman, CNN Money, 9 Sep. 2025
At the same time, the Home Buyer Scarcity Index, which measures how crunched an area is for purchasable homes, has spiked.
—Nigel Chiwaya, NBC news, 28 Aug. 2025
The Spaniard crunched some decent Bellucci groundstrokes with turbo boost borrowed from Sinner’s Wimbledon final range.
—Tim Ellis, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2025
For tiny messes and crunched closet spaces, handheld vacuums come in—some might even say—more handy than an upright cordless vac.
—Yelena Moroz Alpert, Architectural Digest, 8 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for crunched
scraped
Verb
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Ricci scraped together a $27,000 loan, but still came up $500 short.—
Emma Burleigh,
Fortune,
1 Oct. 2025
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Cindric scraped the outside wall on his qualifying lap and will start 26th.—
Reid Spencer,
Kansas City Star,
28 Sep. 2025
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“Crunched.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/crunched. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.
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