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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

... sure-eyed as a cat. Rain began to fall, and the heavy foliage thrummed with the growing downpour which yet did not penetrate to the earth. As they neared the shore, the forest resounded with the solemn boom and crash of long-sweeping seas outside the bar; the wind screamed among the huts; all the women and those men who had returned from their portion of the search were snugly under cover. The place ...

— The Pirate Woman • Aylward Edward Dingle

... something more than tragic. It was a feeling, not that life was unimportant, but that life was much too important ever to be anything but life. I hope that this was Christianity. At any rate, it occurred at the moment when we went crash into ...

— Tremendous Trifles • G. K. Chesterton

... in a moment it had snapped in two. The mainyard no longer supported by the brace, and pressed by the whole power of the straining topsail, flew forward and upward till it was bent nearly double, when with a loud crash it parted in the slings, splintering the topsail into ribands with ...

— The Cruise of the Alabama and the Sumter • Raphael Semmes

... to-morrow he should have forgotten everything. THIS TIME TO-MORROW. His mind repeated that also, as he began to dress himself. Where should he be? Should he be anywhere? Suppose he awakened again— to something as bad as this? How did a man get out of his body? After the crash and shock what happened? Did one find oneself standing beside the Thing and looking down at it? It would not be a good thing to stand and look down on—even for that which had deserted it. But having torn oneself loose from it and its devilish aches and ...

— The Dawn of a To-morrow • Frances Hodgson Burnett

... out for war and death, That signs of heaven forbid so sore, that high God gainsayeth, And King Latinus' house therewith beset they eagerly; But he unmoved against them stands as crag amid the sea; As crag amid the sea, that stands unmoved and huge to meet The coming crash, while plenteously the waves bark round its feet: Vain is the roaring on the rocks and rattling shingly crash, The wrack from off its smitten sides falls ...

— The AEneids of Virgil - Done into English Verse • Virgil

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