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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

... few drops, muttering thunder, and then, quicker than one can say it, a blinding, crashing downpour. Never in my life have I seen rain like this until that night at sea when we passed through the edge of the cyclone, and now twice have I met it in a week! It is simply a water-spout. A brilliant ...

— Round the Wonderful World • G. E. Mitton

... attempted at this crisis of the dinner were past all counting. But the applause was so furious, the music so stormy, and the crashing of glasses so incessant, from the general resolution never again to drink an inferior toast from the same glass, that my power is not equal to the task of reporting. Besides which, Toad-in-the-hole now became quite ungovernable. He kept firing ...

— Miscellaneous Essays • Thomas de Quincey

... voices of shrieking women, the crashing of glass and furniture, and the savage and exultant yell ...

— Our Home in the Silver West - A Story of Struggle and Adventure • Gordon Stables

... again and it sounded softened, spiritualised, purified. Its fierce clamour, its triumphant crashing, were gone. It told of defeat and overthrow, of martyrs walking painfully to death, of prison cells and dungeons that never see the sun, of life-work unrewarded, of those who give their lives to Liberty and die before its shackled limbs are struck free. But it told, too, of an ideal held more sacred ...

— The Workingman's Paradise - An Australian Labour Novel • John Miller

... as she sat there motionless was a crashing "no." The thing seemed to drive her mad by its insistence—a horrible racking thing that all but shook her, and she chattered at it: "Why not? Why not? Why not?" But the "no" kept roaring through her mind, and as she heard the servant rattling ...

— A Certain Rich Man • William Allen White

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