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MUNCH
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A large bite
Example:
he tried to talk between munches on the sandwich
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("munch" is a kind of...):
bite; chomp (the act of gripping or chewing off with the teeth and jaws)
Derivation:
munch (chew noisily)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Norwegian painter (1863-1944)
Synonyms:
Edvard Munch; Munch
Classified under:
Instance hypernyms:
painter (an artist who paints)
II. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they munch ... he / she / it munches
Past simple: munched
Past participle: munched
-ing form: munching
Sense 1
Meaning:
Chew noisily
Example:
The children crunched the celery sticks
Synonyms:
crunch; munch
Classified under:
Hypernyms (to "munch" is one way to...):
chew; jaw; manducate; masticate (chew (food); to bite and grind with the teeth)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Derivation:
munch (a large bite)
muncher (a chewer who makes a munching noise)
Context examples:
Alleyne, looking back, saw that the murderer had drawn bread and cheese from his scrip, and was silently munching it, with the protecting cross still hugged to his breast, while the other, black and grim, stood in the sunlit road and threw his dark shadow athwart him.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
