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Crash   /kræʃ/   Listen
Crash

noun
1.
A loud resonant repeating noise.  Synonyms: clang, clangor, clangoring, clangour, clank, clash.
2.
A serious accident (usually involving one or more vehicles).  Synonym: wreck.
3.
A sudden large decline of business or the prices of stocks (especially one that causes additional failures).  Synonym: collapse.
4.
The act of colliding with something.  Synonym: smash.  "The fullback's smash into the defensive line"
5.
(computer science) an event that causes a computer system to become inoperative.
verb
(past & past part. crashed; pres. part. crashing)
1.
Fall or come down violently.  "The plane crashed in the sea"
2.
Move with, or as if with, a crashing noise.
3.
Undergo damage or destruction on impact.  Synonym: ram.  "The car crashed into the lamp post"
4.
Move violently as through a barrier.
5.
Break violently or noisily; smash.  Synonyms: break apart, break up.
6.
Occupy, usually uninvited.
7.
Make a sudden loud sound.
8.
Enter uninvited; informal.  Synonyms: barge in, gate-crash.
9.
Cause to crash.  "Mother crashed the motorbike into the lamppost"
10.
Hurl or thrust violently.  Synonym: dash.  "Waves were dashing against the rock"
11.
Undergo a sudden and severe downturn.  "Will the stock market crash again?"
12.
Stop operating.  Synonym: go down.  "The system goes down at least once a week"
13.
Sleep in a convenient place.  Synonyms: doss, doss down.



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"Crash" Quotes from Famous Books



... but a strong current of four or five knots was running between the piles, drifting the steamer away at every attempt as soon as she slowed. To come in on the other side was dangerous, the hull of the vessel being likely to crash against and overthrow the fragile erection, with damage to herself also. Flower, who had disappeared for a few minutes, now ...
— The Hand of Ethelberta • Thomas Hardy
... could close and bolt the door I heard a crash and a cry of pain, and caught a glimpse of Cludde, who, in leaping from the coach, had fallen awry and lay sprawling in the dust. Then I shut him from sight and ran to the other door, by which Mistress Peabody had gone into the garden. This I slammed and ...
— Humphrey Bold - A Story of the Times of Benbow • Herbert Strang
... under the rocky wall, above its terrific thunder rang a deafening crash, and he saw with horror a huge bowlder coming down the side of the ...
— Jack North's Treasure Hunt - Daring Adventures in South America • Roy Rockwood
... last word Felix let go with his old musket, into which he must have rammed a tremendous charge, for it made a report like unto the crash of thunder, and came very near sending the owner flat on ...
— The Aeroplane Boys Flight - A Hydroplane Roundup • John Luther Langworthy
... this? The lads were pulling up, the big banner halted right opposite his door, just as if it had been the Squire's—with a sudden crash the band stopped short, and ...
— North, South and Over the Sea • M.E. Francis (Mrs. Francis Blundell)


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