crunchingly

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adverb

With a crunching sound or action.

Scrabble 22

Meanings

adverbcrunchingly (comparative more crunchingly, superlative most crunchingly)

comparative more crunchingly · superlative most crunchingly

  1. With a crunching sound or action.

    He bites crunchingly through the breast, tearing through skin, flesh and bone till his teeth meet..

    1934, Henry G. Lamond, An Aviary on the Plains, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 183
    1 more example

    As I stood there someone stepped crunchingly on the gravel path before the shuttered windows. I turned, and there was Pengelly.

    1931, Hugh Walpole, Above the Dark Tumult, page 46

Origin

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Chicago

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