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To crush something, especially food, with a noisy crackling sound.
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When I came home, Susan was watching TV with her feet up on the couch, crunching a piece of celery.
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To be crushed with a noisy crackling sound.
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Beetles crunched beneath the men's heavy boots as they worked.
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To calculate or otherwise process (e.g. to crunch numbers: to perform mathematical calculations). Presumably from the sound made by mechanical calculators.
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That metadata makes it much easier for the search engine to crunch the data for queries.
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To grind or press with violence and noise.
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To emit a grinding or crunching noise.
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To compress (data) using a particular algorithm, so that it can be restored by decrunching.
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To make employees work overtime in order to meet a deadline in the development of a project.