crash

IPA: krˈæʃ

noun

  • A sudden, intense, loud sound, as made for example by cymbals.
  • An automobile, airplane, or other vehicle accident.
  • (computing) A malfunction of computer software or hardware which causes it to shut down or become partially or totally inoperable.
  • (finance) A sudden large decline of business or the prices of stocks (especially one that causes additional failures).
  • (informal) A comedown from a drug.
  • (collective) A group of rhinoceroses.
  • (ecology) A sudden decline in any living form's population levels, often leading to extinction.
  • (textiles) A type of rough linen.

verb

  • (intransitive) To collide with something destructively, fall or come down violently.
  • (transitive) To cause something to collide with something else, especially when this results in damage.
  • (transitive) To hit or strike with force
  • To make a sudden loud noise.
  • (transitive, management) To accelerate a project or a task or its schedule by devoting more resources to it.
  • (intransitive, slang) To make or experience informal temporary living arrangements, especially overnight.
  • (transitive, slang) To give, as a favor.
  • (intransitive, slang) To lie down for a long rest, sleep or nap, as from tiredness or exhaustion.
  • (intransitive) To experience a period of depression and/or lethargy after a period of euphoria, as after the euphoric effect of a psychotropic drug has dissipated.
  • (computing, hardware, software, intransitive) To terminate or halt execution due to an exception.
  • (computing, hardware, software, transitive) To cause an exception that terminates or halts execution.
  • To take a sudden and severe turn for the worse; to rapidly and catastrophically deteriorate.
  • (transitive, slang) Short for gatecrash. [To attend a social event without having been invited, or without having paid.]

adjective

  • Quick, fast, intensive, impromptu.
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Examples of "crash" in Sentences

  • The car crashed, and she miscarried.
  • There was a car crash down the street.
  • The aircraft disintegrated and crashed.
  • The car crashed and the bumper is broken.
  • The circumstances of the crash are unclear.
  • Thugs waylay them and force his car to crash.
  • The impact of the crash reduced the car to a pile of wreckage.
  • At the moment of the crash the royal family was in the dining car.
  • The car crashes and explodes but the blonde woman walks away unscathed.
  • The police charge scared them enough to crash the car into the divider.

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