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crunchingly en · ADV

Etymology

Etymology tree English crunching Middle English -ly English -ly English crunchingly From crunching + -ly.

Meanings

1. With a crunching sound or action.
   • 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:
   • 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:

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