brunch | (noun) combination of breakfast and lunch; usually served in late morning | - |
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(verb) eat a meal in the late morning | - |
bunch | (noun) a grouping of a number of similar things | Synonyms: clump, cluster, clustering |
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(noun) an informal body of friends | Synonyms: crew, crowd, gang |
(noun) any collection in its entirety | Synonyms: caboodle, lot |
(verb) gather or cause to gather into a cluster | Synonyms: bundle, clump, cluster |
(verb) form into a bunch | Synonyms: bunch together, bunch up |
buttercrunch | (noun) lettuce with delicate and relatively crunchy leaves | - |
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clunch | (noun) stiff clay | - |
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counterpunch | (noun) a return punch (especially by a boxer) | Synonyms: counter, parry |
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craunch | (verb) press or grind with a crushing noise | Synonyms: cranch, crunch, grind |
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crunch | (noun) the act of crushing | Synonyms: compaction, crush |
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(noun) the sound of something crunching | - |
(noun) a critical situation that arises because of a shortage (as a shortage of time or money or resources) | - |
(verb) reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading | Synonyms: bray, comminute, grind, mash |
(verb) make a crushing noise | Synonyms: crackle, scranch, scraunch |
(verb) crush with the teeth, making a grinding sound | Synonyms: munch |
(verb) press or grind with a crushing noise | Synonyms: cranch, craunch, grind |
haunch | (noun) the loin and leg of a quadruped | - |
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(noun) the hip and buttock and upper thigh in human beings | - |
hunch | (noun) the act of bending yourself into a humped position | - |
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(noun) an impression that something might be the case | Synonyms: intuition, suspicion |
(verb) round one's back by bending forward and drawing the shoulders forward | Synonyms: hump, hunch forward, hunch over |
launch | (noun) the act of propelling with force | Synonyms: launching |
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(noun) a motorboat with an open deck or a half deck | - |
(verb) begin with vigor | Synonyms: plunge |
(verb) propel with force | - |
(verb) launch for the first time; launch on a maiden voyage | - |
(verb) get going; give impetus to | Synonyms: set in motion |
(verb) smoothen the surface of | - |
(verb) set up or found | Synonyms: establish, found, set up |
lunch | (noun) a midday meal | Synonyms: dejeuner, luncheon, tiffin |
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(verb) take the midday meal | - |
(verb) provide a midday meal for | - |
munch | (noun) a large bite | - |
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(verb) crush with the teeth, making a grinding sound | Synonyms: crunch |
paunch | (noun) a protruding abdomen | Synonyms: belly |
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punch | (noun) (boxing) a blow with the fist | Synonyms: biff, clout, lick, poke, slug |
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(noun) a tool for making holes or indentations | Synonyms: puncher |
(noun) an iced mixed drink usually containing alcohol and prepared for multiple servings; normally served in a punch bowl | - |
(verb) deliver a quick blow to | Synonyms: plug |
(verb) make a hole into or between, as for ease of separation | Synonyms: perforate |
(verb) drive forcibly as if by a punch | - |
raunch | (noun) the quality of lacking taste and refinement | Synonyms: coarseness, commonness, grossness, vulgarism, vulgarity |
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runch | (noun) Eurasian weed having yellow or mauve or white flowers and podlike fruits | Synonyms: jointed charlock, Raphanus raphanistrum, wild radish, wild rape |
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scraunch | (verb) make a crushing noise | Synonyms: crackle, crunch, scranch |
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scrunch | (noun) a crunching noise | - |
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(verb) make wrinkles or creases on a smooth surface; make a pressed, folded or wrinkled line in; `crisp' is archaic | Synonyms: crease, crinkle, crisp, ruckle, scrunch up, wrinkle |
(verb) sit on one's heels | Synonyms: crouch, hunker, hunker down, scrunch up, squat |
(verb) make a noise typical of an engine lacking lubricants | Synonyms: crump, thud |
staunch | (adjective) firm and dependable especially in loyalty | Synonyms: steadfast, unswerving |
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(verb) stop the flow of a liquid | Synonyms: halt, stanch, stem |