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Meaning of decrunch | Babel Free

Verb CEFR B2

Definitions

To decompress (data) previously compressed by crunching.

ambitransitive

Examples

“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?”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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