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.