diff --git a/usr.sbin/crunch/crunchgen/crunchgen.1 b/usr.sbin/crunch/crunchgen/crunchgen.1
index 1fd37811b904de..b015f373f67177 100644
--- a/usr.sbin/crunch/crunchgen/crunchgen.1
+++ b/usr.sbin/crunch/crunchgen/crunchgen.1
@@ -137,9 +137,7 @@ Set the name of a file to be included at the beginning of the
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-This is useful to define some make variables such as
-.Va RELEASE_CRUNCH
-or similar, which might affect the behavior of
+This is useful to define some make variables which might affect the behavior of
 .Xr make 1
 and are annoying to pass through environment variables.
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