Decrunch
verb
verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Verb
- 1 To decompress (data) previously compressed by crunching. ambitransitive
"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 […]"
Example
More 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 […]"
Etymology
From de- + crunch.
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