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crunchnoun a falling short of an essential or desirable amount or numbera severe energy crunch that resulted in long lines at the gas pumps dearth, deficiency, deficit, drought(also drouth), failure, famine, inadequacy, inadequateness, insufficiency, lack, lacuna, paucity, pinch, poverty, scantiness, scarceness, scarcity, shortage, undersupply, want absence, omissionmeagerness, poorness, skimpinessnecessity, need, privation abundance, adequacy, amplitude, opulence, plenitude, plenty, sufficiency, wealth bountifulness, copiousnessexcess, overabundance, oversupply, surfeit, surplus a time or state of affairs requiring prompt or decisive actiona player who's always good in a crunch, like when we need a goal to win the soccer match boiling point, breaking point, clutch, conjuncture, crisis, crossroad(s), crunch time, Dunkirk, emergency, exigency, extremity, flash point, head, juncture, tinderbox, zero hour contingency, possibilityclimax, turning pointhappening, landmark, milestonecondition, pass, situation, straitdeadlock, impasse, stalematecorner, fix, hole, hot water, jam, last ditch, pinch, predicament, scrape, spoteleventh hour, last minute moment of truth, point of no return to press or strike against or together so as to make a scraping soundI could hear the bicycle gears crunch as I shifted the derailleur gnash, grate, grind, grit, scrape, scrunch creak, groan, moan, rasp, scratch, whineclash, collide, jangle, jar in 1706 |