decrunch

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It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.

Scrabble points
16
Words With Friends
19
Letters
8

Definition of decrunch

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. (ambitransitive)To decompress (data) previously compressed by crunching.
    “Several phone calls and a borrowed Mac later, I found that the single disk sent me wouldn't in any case decrunch (uncompress its data) without a sister disk — which had gone astray across the Atlantic. Such hitches are always irritating […]”
    “The executable is still decrunched in memory, so it will _use_ some extra memory but _save_ disk space.”
    “Dear Dr. Destiny, my dictionary on CD-ROM won't decrunch, what do you recommend?”

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Etymology

From de- + crunch.

Anagrams of decrunch

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