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Definition: Crunched |
CrunchedAdjective1. Reduced to small pieces; "crunched nuts". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "crunched" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1832. (references) |
Crosswords: Crunched |
| English words defined with "crunched": crunch ♦ Munch. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Tongue Twisters | Kris Kringle carefully crunched on candy canes. (references; author: unknown) | |
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| "Crunched" by Lisa McDonald Commentary: "Car crunched in wreck." |
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| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Rush Limbaugh | The numbers have all been crunched, the figures tallied, and lo and behold, the grand total for the amount of vandalism damage caused by Clinonites leaving the White House, primarily in the old executive office building, is twenty grand. |
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| "Crunched" is generally used as a lexical verb (past tense) -- approximately 88.24% of the time. "Crunched" is used about 68 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 88.24% | 60 | 43,597 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 10.29% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.47% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 68 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "crunched": crunched-up. | |
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| Language | Translations for "crunched"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 咬嚼 (crunch, Crunching). (various references) | |
German | zermalmte (squelched), geknirscht (gnashed). (various references) | |
Hungarian | átlábolt a csikorgó havon (he crunched his way through the snow). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | unchedcray.(various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "crunched": scrunched. (additional references) | |
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"Crunched" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cruachem, Cruche, cruncher, graunched, grunched. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "crunched" (pronounced kru"nkht) |
| 6 | k r u" n kh t | scrunched. |
| 4 | -u" n kh t | bunched, hunched, lunched, munched, punched. |
| 3 | -n kh t | branched, cinched, clenched, clinched, drenched, entrenched, flinched, inched, launched, lynched, pinched, relaunched, retrenched, stanched, wrenched. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-c-d-e-h-n-r-u" | |
-1 letter: churned. | |
-2 letters: crunch, drench, ruched. | |
-3 letters: churn, crude, curch, cured, dunce, dunch, nuder, ruche, under. | |
-4 letters: crud, cued, curd, cure, curn, duce, dune, dure, durn, ecru, herd, hern, hued, nerd, nude, nurd, rend, rude, rued, rune, unde. | |
-5 letters: cud, cue, cur, den, due, duh, dun, ecu, edh, end, ern, hen, her, hue, hun, rec, red. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-c-d-e-h-n-r-u" | |
+1 letter: craunched, scrunched. | |
+2 letters: unchurched. | |
+4 letters: churchwarden, unchronicled. | |
+5 letters: churchwardens. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Images: Digital Art 6. Quotations: Spoken 7. Usage Frequency 8. Expressions | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Derivations 11. Rhymes 12. Anagrams | 13. Bibliography |
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