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crunchesnounpl. of crunch a falling short of an essential or desirable amount or numbera severe energy crunch that resulted in long lines at the gas pumps dearths, deficiencies, deficits, droughts(also drouths), failures, famines, inadequacies, insufficiencies, lacks, lacunae(also lacunas), paucities, pinches, poverties, scarcities, shortages, undersupplies, wants absences, omissionsnecessities, needs, privations abundances, adequacies, amplitudes, opulences, plenitudes, plenties, sufficiencies, wealths excesses, overabundances, oversupplies, surfeits, surpluses 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 points, breaking points, clutches, conjunctures, crises, crossroads, crunch times, Dunkirks, emergencies, exigencies, extremities, flash points, heads, junctures, tinderboxes, zero hours contingencies, possibilitiesclimaxes, turning pointshappenings, landmarks, milestonesconditions, passes, situations, straitsdeadlocks, impasses, stalematescorners, fixes, holes, hot waters, jams, last ditches, pinches, predicaments, scrapes, spotseleventh hours, last minutes moments of truth, points 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 gnashes, grates, grinds, grits, scrapes, scrunches creaks, groans, moans, rasps, scratches, whinesclashes, collides, jangles, jars |