crunched
Because it is a word with a single syllable, crunched is not hyphenated. The words that have a single syllable are called monosyllabic words.
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Definitions ofcrunched
- To crush something, especially food, with a noisy crackling sound.
Example: "When I came home, Susan was watching TV with her feet up on the couch, crunching a piece of celery."
- To be crushed with a noisy crackling sound.
Example: "Beetles crunched beneath the men's heavy boots as they worked."
- To calculate or otherwise process (e.g. to crunch numbers: to perform mathematical calculations). Presumably from the sound made by mechanical calculators.
Example: "That metadata makes it much easier for the search engine to crunch the data for queries."
- To grind or press with violence and noise.
- To emit a grinding or crunching noise.
- To compress (data) using a particular algorithm, so that it can be restored by decrunching.
- To make employees work overtime in order to meet a deadline in the development of a project.
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