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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

... in a rural church within the Confederate lines. The Northern army was lying so close to them that a battle was imminent at any moment. Dr. Palmer had begun his "long prayer," when a Federal shell landed immediately under the windows of the church and exploded with a terrific crash! The doctor was not to be shelled out of his duty, and he went steadily on to the end of his prayer. When he opened his eyes the house was deserted! His congregation had slipped quietly out, and left ...

— Recollections of a Long Life - An Autobiography • Theodore Ledyard Cuyler

... point distant from the shore, a long Basque cry rises from the darkness in a lugubrious falsetto, an "irrintzina," the only thing in this country with which he never could become entirely familiar. But a great mocking noise occurs in the distance, the crash of iron, whistles: a train from Paris to Madrid, which is passing over there, behind them, in the black of the French shore. And the Spirit of the old ages folds its wings made of shade and vanishes. Silence returns: but after the passage of this stupid and rapid thing, the Spirit which has ...

— Ramuntcho • Pierre Loti

... the building to its foundations; the lights went out, and there was a long grinding crash of broken glass ...

— The Primadonna • F. Marion Crawford

... at the impudent plundering by our masters, their contempt of public opinion and the cynical display of their luxury, would doubtless have confined himself to grumbling and to calling for slow-arriving thunderbolts to crash the oppressors who were despoiling him had he felt certain that the plunder would be confined to them, that his property would be safe, at least, from the attacks of those insignificant, despicable but eminently dangerous plunderers who became known to the police as common ...

— Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison - Fifteen Years in Solitude • Austin Biron Bidwell

... crash of a glass door made him look round. It was Miss Foster who was hastening along the enclosed passage leading to the outer stair. She had miscalculated the strength of the wind on the north side of the house, and the glass door communicating with the library ...

— Eleanor • Mrs. Humphry Ward

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