Synonyms of the word

crunch

• v. To crush something, especially food, with a noisy crackling sound.
• v. To be crushed with a noisy crackling sound.
• v. (slang) To calculate or otherwise process (e.g. to crunch numbers: to perform mathematical calculations).
• v. To grind or press with violence and noise.
• v. To emit a grinding or crunching noise.
• v. (computing, transitive) To compress (data) using a particular algorithm, so that it can be restored by…
• n. A noisy crackling sound; the sound usually associated with crunching.
• n. A critical moment or event.
• n. (exercise (sport)) A form of abdominal exercise, based on a sit-up but in which the lower back remains…

bray

• v. (intransitive) Of a donkey, to make its cry.
• v. (intransitive) Of a camel, to make its cry.
• v. (intransitive) To make a harsh, discordant sound like a donkey's bray.
• v. (transitive) To make or utter with a loud, discordant, or harsh and grating sound.
• n. The cry of an ass or donkey.
• n. The cry of a camel.
• n. Any harsh, grating, or discordant sound.
• v. (now rare) To crush or pound, especially in a mortar.
• v. (Britain, chiefly Yorkshire) By extension, to hit someone or something.

chew

• v. To crush with the teeth by repeated closing and opening of the jaws; done to food to soften it and break…
• v. To grind, tear, or otherwise degrade or demolish something with teeth or as with teeth.
• v. (informal) To think about something; to ponder; to chew over.
• n. The act of chewing; mastication with the mouth.
• n. A small sweet, such as a taffy, that is eaten by chewing.
• n. (informal, uncountable) Chewing tobacco.
• n. (countable or uncountable) A plug or wad of chewing tobacco; chaw or a chaw.

comminute

• v. To pulverize; to smash.
• v. (medicine) To cause fragmentation (of bone).
• v. To break into smaller portions.
• n. Pulverized material.

compaction

• n. The process of compacting something, or something that has been compacted.

compressing

• v. present participle of compress.

compression

• n. An increase in density; the act of compressing, or the state of being compressed; compaction.
• n. (automotive) The cycle of an internal combustion engine during which the fuel and air mixture is compressed.
• n. (computing) The process by which data is compressed.
• n. (music) The electronic process by which any sound's gain is automatically controlled.
• n. (astronomy) The deviation of a heavenly body from a spherical form.

crackle

• n. A fizzing, popping sound.
• n. (pottery) A style of glaze giving the impression of many small cracks.
• n. (physics) The fifth derivative of the position vector with respect to time (after velocity, acceleration,…
• v. (intransitive) To make a fizzing, popping sound.

cranch

• v. Alternative form of craunch.

craunch

• v. (transitive, archaic) To crush with the teeth; to chew with violence and noise; to crunch.
• n. A grinding or crunching sound.

crush

• n. A violent collision or compression; a crash; destruction; ruin.
• n. Violent pressure, as of a moving crowd.
• n. Crowd which produces uncomfortable pressure.
• n. A violent crowding.
• n. A crowd control barrier.
• n. An infatuation or affection for.
• n. The human object of such infatuation or affection.
• n. A standing stock or cage with movable sides used to restrain livestock for safe handling.
• n. A party, festive function.
• n. (Australia) The process of crushing cane to remove the raw sugar, or the season that this process takes…
• v. To press or bruise between two hard bodies; to squeeze, so as to destroy the natural shape or integrity…
• v. To reduce to fine particles by pounding or grinding; to comminute.
• v. To overwhelm by pressure or weight; to beat or force down, as by an incumbent weight.
• v. To oppress or burden grievously.
• v. To overcome completely; to subdue totally.
• v. (intransitive) To be or become broken down or in, or pressed into a smaller compass, by external weight…
• v. To feel infatuation with or unrequited love for.
• v. (sports) to defeat emphatically.

fragment

• n. A part broken off; a small, detached portion; an imperfect part, either physically or not.
• n. (grammar) A sentence not containing a subject or a predicate.
• n. (computing) An incomplete portion of code.
• v. (intransitive) To break apart.
• v. (transitive) To cause to be broken into pieces.
• v. (transitive, computing) To break up and disperse (a file) into non-contiguous areas of a disk.

fragmentise

• v. Alternative form of fragmentize.

fragmentize

• v. (transitive) To break, cut, or otherwise separate (something) into fragments.
• v. (intransitive) To fall into or become separated into fragments.

grind

• v. To reduce to smaller pieces by crushing with lateral motion.
• v. To shape with the force of friction.
• v. (metalworking) To remove material by rubbing with an abrasive surface.
• v. To become ground, pulverized, or polished by friction.
• v. To move with much difficulty or friction; to grate.
• v. (sports) To slide the flat portion of a skateboard or snowboard across an obstacle such as a railing.
• v. To oppress, hold down or weaken.
• v. (slang) To rotate the hips erotically.
• v. (slang) To dance in a sexually suggestive way with both partners in very close proximity, often pressed…
• v. (video games) To repeat a task a large number of times in a row to achieve a specific goal.
• v. To produce mechanically and repetitively as if by turning a crank.
• v. To instill through repetitive teaching.
• v. (slang, Hawaii) To eat.
• v. (slang) To work or study hard; to hustle or drudge.
• n. The act of reducing to powder, or of sharpening, by friction.
• n. Something that has been reduced to powder, something that has been ground.
• n. A specific degree of pulverization of coffee beans.
• n. A tedious task.
• n. A grinding trick on a skateboard or snowboard.
• n. (archaic, slang) One who studies hard; a swot.
• n. Grindcore (subgenre of heavy metal).
• n. A traditional communal pilot whale hunt in the Faroe Islands.

jaw

• n. One of the bones, usually bearing teeth, which form the framework of the mouth.
• n. The part of the face below the mouth.
• n. (figuratively) Anything resembling the jaw of an animal in form or action; especially plural, the mouth…
• n. A notch or opening.
• n. A notched or forked part, adapted for holding an object in place.
• n. One of a pair of opposing parts which are movable towards or from each other, for grasping or crushing…
• n. (nautical) The inner end of a boom or gaff, hollowed in a half circle so as to move freely on a mast.
• n. (slang, dated) Impudent or abusive talk.
• n. (slang) Axle guard.
• n. (snooker) The curved part of the cushion marking the entry to the pocket.
• v. (transitive) To assail or abuse by scolding.
• v. (intransitive) To scold; to clamor.
• v. (intransitive, informal) To talk; to converse.
• v. (snooker, transitive, intransitive) (of a ball) To stick in the jaws of a pocket.
• adj. (used in certain set phrases like jaw harp, jaw harpist and jaw's-trump).

manducate

• v. (literary) to chew; to masticate.
• v. (literary) to eat.

mash

• n. (obsolete) A mesh.
• n. (uncountable) A mass of mixed ingredients reduced to a soft pulpy state by beating or pressure; a mass…
• n. In brewing, ground or bruised malt, or meal of rye, wheat, corn, or other grain (or a mixture of malt…
• n. Mashed potatoes.
• n. A mixture of meal or bran and water fed to animals.
• n. (obsolete): A mess; trouble.
• v. (transitive) To convert into a mash; to reduce to a soft pulpy state by beating or pressure.
• v. (transitive) In brewing, to convert, (for example malt, or malt and meal) into the mash which makes wort.
• v. (transitive) To press down hard (on).
• v. (transitive, Southern US, informal) to press.
• v. (transitive, Britain) To prepare a cup of tea (in a teapot), alternative to brew (used mainly in Northern…
• v. to flirt, to make eyes, to make romantic advances.
• n. (obsolete) an infatuation, a crush, a fancy.
• n. (obsolete) a dandy, a masher.
• n. (obsolete) the object of one’s affections (either sex).

masticate

• v. (transitive) To chew (food).
• v. (transitive) To grind or knead something into a pulp.

munch

• v. To chew with a grinding, crunching sound—often used with on.
• v. To eat vigorously or with excitement.
• n. A location or restaurant where good eating can be expected.
• n. (colloquial) An act of eating.
• n. (uncountable, slang) food.
• n. (BDSM) A casual meeting for those interested in BDSM, usually at a restaurant. See Munch (BDSM).

noise

• n. Various sounds, usually unwanted or unpleasant.
• n. Sound or signal generated by random fluctuations.
• n. (technology) Unwanted part of a signal. (Signal to noise ratio).
• n. (genetics) The measured level of variation in gene expression among cells, regardless of source, within…
• n. Rumour or complaint.
• n. (obsolete) Music, in general; a concert; also, a company of musicians; a band.
• n. (music) A genre of rock music that uses static and other non-musical sounds, also influenced by art rock.
• v. (intransitive) To make a noise; to sound.
• v. (transitive) To spread news of; to spread as rumor or gossip.

press

• n. (countable) A device used to apply pressure to an item.
• n. (countable) A printing machine.
• n. (uncountable) A collective term for the print-based media (both the people and the newspapers).
• n. (countable) A publisher.
• n. (countable, especially in Ireland and Scotland) An enclosed storage space (e.g. closet, cupboard).
• n. (countable, weightlifting) An exercise in which weight is forced away from the body by extension of the…
• n. (countable, wagering) An additional bet in a golf match that duplicates an existing (usually losing) wager…
• n. (countable) Pure, unfermented grape juice.
• n. A commission to force men into public service, particularly into the navy.
• n. (obsolete) A crowd.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) to exert weight or force against, to act upon with with force or weight.
• v. (transitive) to compress, squeeze.
• v. (transitive) to clasp, hold in an embrace; to hug.
• v. (transitive) to reduce to a particular shape or form by pressure, especially flatten or smooth.
• v. (transitive, sewing) To flatten a selected area of fabric using an iron with an up-and-down, not sliding,…
• v. (transitive) to drive or thrust by pressure, to force in a certain direction.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) to weigh upon, oppress, trouble.
• v. (transitive) to force to a certain end or result; to urge strongly, impel.
• v. To try to force (something upon someone); to urge or inculcate.
• v. (transitive) to hasten, urge onward.
• v. (transitive) to urge, beseech, entreat.
• v. (transitive) to lay stress upon, emphasize.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) to throng, crowd.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) to print.
• v. To force into service, particularly into naval service.

resound

• v. (intransitive) to sound again.
• v. (transitive) to echo a sound.
• v. (intransitive) to reverberate with sound or noise.
• v. (intransitive) to make a reverberating sound.
• v. (transitive) To throw back, or return, the sound of; to echo.
• v. To praise or celebrate with the voice, or the sound of instruments; to extol with sounds; to spread the…

scranch

• v. (transitive) To grind with the teeth, and with a crackling sound; to craunch.

situation

• n. The way in which something is positioned vis-à-vis its surroundings.
• n. The place in which something is situated; a location.
• n. Position or status with regard to conditions and circumstances.
• n. The combination of circumstances at a given moment; a state of affairs.
• n. (Britain) A position of employment; a post.
• n. A difficult or unpleasant set of circumstances; a problem.