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Crashing

adjective

1.

Informal intensifiers. Synonyms: bally, blinking, bloody, blooming, flaming, fucking. "A bloody fool" , "A crashing bore" , "You flaming idiot"

Crash

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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"Crashing" Quotes from Famous Books

... the aproned one, indignantly: "They ain't no wimin' allowed in here—" With the words the man's hand leaped from behind the bar, there was a crashing report, a heavy six-shooter thudded upon the wooden floor, and with a cry of pain the bartender spun half around clutching at his ...

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... was loosely set in a sort of socket fixed in the earth; this was all the monster's pedestal. I saw that it barely needed a man's strength to send it toppling over. Yet for a moment I could summon up none. At length I put my hands to it and with an effort sent it crashing ...

— Dead Man's Rock • Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

... desperately that the pîpal branch broke, and he came crashing through the tree to the ground, without much hurt beyond a great fright and a few bruises. However, he was so dreadfully alarmed that he rushed into the sleeping-room, and rolling himself up in his quilt, shook from head to foot as if ...

— Tales Of The Punjab • Flora Annie Steel

... and the captain ordered us again to the pumps. These were on deck between the logs, which were crashing about. We couldn't work the pumps, as there was seven feet of water in there on deck. The second mate spoke to the captain that it would be best to start the steam pump. The smokestack and the rest of the steam fittings ...

— Mystic Isles of the South Seas. • Frederick O'Brien

... going to do he did not say just then, for above the heads of father and son sounded a rattling, crashing noise, and the whole house seemed to shake Then the voice of ...

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