crunch
verb (used with object)
to crush with the teeth; chew with a crushing noise.
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
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Conversation revives, and, of all things, about that singer, that Zaffirino, whose absurd portrait I am crunching in my fingers.
From Hauntings by Vernon Lee