decrunch

English

Etymology

From de- +‎ crunch.

Verb

decrunch (third-person singular simple present decrunches, present participle decrunching, simple past and past participle decrunched)

1. (transitive, intransitive, computing) To decompress (data) previously compressed by crunching.
   • 1993, The New York Times Book Review, volume 98, page 2:

     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 […]

   • 1996, Marcus Alanen, “Re: Exe Crunchers”, in comp.sys.amiga.programmer (Usenet):

     The executable is still decrunched in memory, so it will _use_ some extra memory but _save_ disk space.

   • 1998, Sandra Martz, Shirley Coe, Generation to generation, page 123:

     Dear Dr. Destiny, my dictionary on CD-ROM won't decrunch, what do you recommend?

Derived terms

• decruncher

 

Anagrams

• crunched