decrunch
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To decompress (data) previously compressed by crunching.
Example Sentences
- "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?"
Etymology
From de- + crunch.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: de