crunch

chew noisily

“The children crunched the celery sticks”

reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading

the act of crushing

make a crushing noise

“his shoes were crunching on the gravel”

press or grind with a crushing noise

a critical situation that arises because of a shortage (as a shortage of time or money or resources)

“an end-of-the year crunch”

the sound of something crunching

“he heard the crunch of footsteps on the gravel path”