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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



... The moon rose and sailed aloft through a maze of shredded cloud-wreaths; the sombre river just perceptibly brightened under the veiled light; a deep silence pervaded the air and was emphasized, at intervals, rather than broken, by the hooting of an owl, the baying of a dog, or the muffled crash of a raving ...
— The Gilded Age, Complete • Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner
... he, "this is my friend—Sir Peter Vibart." There was a moment's pause, then—a chair fell with a crash, and there rose a confusion of excited voices which grew suddenly silent, for the door had opened, and on the threshold stood a woman, tall and proud and richly dressed, from the little dusty boot that peeped beneath her habit to the wide-sweeping ...
— The Broad Highway • Jeffery Farnol
... As the crash of the orchestra died away, and the play opened with the interview between Lambourn and Foster, followed by Tressilian, and the encounter with Varney, the door of the box opened, and the American minister ...
— Infelice • Augusta Jane Evans Wilson
... and pathetic curiosity about virtue has no more striking example than the public eagerness to be acquainted with every detail of Scott's life. For what, as a mere story, is that life?—a level narrative of many prosperous years; a sudden financial crash; and the curtain falls on the struggle of a tired and dying gentleman to save his honor. Scott was born in 1771 and died in 1832, and all that is special in his life belongs to the last six years of it. Even so the materials for the story are of the simplest—enough, ...
— Adventures in Criticism • Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
... crash, the sound of a glass falling upon a stone floor in the next room, broke the stillness. Dalrymple's arms relaxed, and the two stood for one moment facing one another, pale, with fire in their eyes and hearts beating more ...
— Casa Braccio, Volumes 1 and 2 (of 2) • F. Marion Crawford


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