Crunch (kr?nch), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Crunched (kr?ncht); p. pr. & vb. n. Crunching.] [Prob. of imitative origin; or cf. D. schransen to eat heartily, or E. scrunch.]
1.
To chew with force and noise; to craunch.
And their white tusks crunched o'er the whiter skull.
Byron.
2.
To grind or press with violence and noise.
The ship crunched through the ice.
Kane.
3.
To emit a grinding or craunching noise.
The crunching and ratting of the loose stones.
H. James.
© Webster 1913.
Crunch, v. t.
To crush with the teeth; to chew with a grinding noise; to craunch; as, to crunch a biscuit.
© Webster 1913.