as in scraped
to press or strike against or together so as to make a scraping sound
I could hear the bicycle gears crunch as I shifted the derailleur
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Another tree crunched a neighbor’s car.
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Denise Chow, NBC News, 1 Oct. 2024
Denise Chow, NBC News, 1 Oct. 2024
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“Crunched.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/crunched. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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