decrunch

present singular third person decrunches · participle present decrunching · participle past decrunched · past decrunched

1. ambitransitivecomputingTo decompress (data) previously compressed by crunching.

   Dear Dr. Destiny, my dictionary on CD-ROM won't decrunch, what do you recommend?

   1998, Sandra Martz, Shirley Coe, Generation to generation, page 123

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   Several phone calls and a borrowed Mac later, I found that the single disk sent me wouldn't in any case decrunch (uncompress its data) without a sister disk — which had gone astray across the Atlantic. Such hitches are always irritating […]

   1993, The New York Times Book Review, volume 98, page 2

   The executable is still decrunched in memory, so it will _use_ some extra memory but _save_ disk space.

   1996, Marcus Alanen, “Re: Exe Crunchers”, in comp.sys.amiga.programmer (Usenet)