- crunch
- 1. verb
(to crush noisily (something hard), with the teeth, feet etc: She crunched sweets all through the film.) mascar, ronzar, hacer crujir
2. nounthe crunch of gravel under the car wheels.) crujido- crunchycrunch vb1. morder haciendo ruidohe crunched the apple mordió la manzana haciendo ruido2. crujirthe frozen snow crunched as we walked on it la nieve helada crujía al pisarlacrunchtr[krʌnʧ]transitive verb1 (food) mascar, ronzar2 (with feet, tyres) hacer crujirintransitive verb1 (eat noisily) mascar, ronzar (on, -); (of snow etc) crujirnoun1 crujido\SMALLIDIOMATIC EXPRESSION/SMALLwhen it comes to the crunch a la hora de la verdadcrunch ['krʌnʧ] vt1) : ronzar (con los dientes)2) : hacer crujir (con los pies, etc.)crunch vi: crujircrunch n: crujido mcrunchn.• crujido s.m.v.• chascar v.• crujir v.• ronzar v.• roznar v.• tascar v.
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1. krʌntʃtransitive verba) (eat noisily) mascar*, ronchar, ronzar*b) (crush) aplastar (haciendo crujir)to crunch something up — triturar algo
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via) (eat noisily) mascar*, ronchar, ronzar*b) (make grinding sound)our footsteps crunched on the gravel — nuestros pasos hacían crujir la grava
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noun1) (noise) crujido m2) (crisis)[krʌntʃ]when it comes/came to the crunch — a la hora de la verdad
1.N crujido m ; (fig) crisis f , punto m decisivo2.VT (with teeth) mascar, ronzar; [+ ground etc] hacer crujir; (fig) [+ numbers] devorarto crunch an apple/a biscuit — mascar or ronzar una manzana/una galleta
3.VI [gravel, snow, glass] crujirthe tyres crunched on the gravel — la grava crujía bajo el peso de los neumáticos, los neumáticos hacían crujir la grava
4.CPD [meeting, match] decisivo, crucialcrunch time N — momento m decisivo
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1. [krʌntʃ]transitive verba) (eat noisily) mascar*, ronchar, ronzar*b) (crush) aplastar (haciendo crujir)to crunch something up — triturar algo
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via) (eat noisily) mascar*, ronchar, ronzar*b) (make grinding sound)our footsteps crunched on the gravel — nuestros pasos hacían crujir la grava
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noun1) (noise) crujido m2) (crisis)when it comes/came to the crunch — a la hora de la verdad
English-spanish dictionary. 2013.
