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Crash

kraʃ

Crash definitions
verb
crash crashed crashes crashing
  1. (of a vehicle) collide violently with an obstacle or another vehicle

    "a racing car had crashed, wrecking a safety barrier"

    smash into collide with be in collision with come into collision with hit strike ram smack into slam into bang into cannon into plough into meet head-on run into drive into bump into knock into crack into/against
    • cause (a vehicle) to collide violently with something

      "they crashed a lorry through a fence"

    • (of an aircraft) fall from the sky and hit the land or sea

      "a jet crashed 200 yards from the school"

    • cause (an aircraft) to fall from the sky

      "the test pilot crashed a Hurricane fighter plane"

  2. move or cause to move with force, speed, and sudden loud noise

    "huge waves crashed down on to us"

    • make a sudden loud noise

      "the thunder crashed"

  3. (of shares, a business, etc.) suddenly drop in value or fail

    "the shares crashed to 329p"

    fail collapse fold (up) go under founder be ruined cave in
    • be heavily defeated in a sporting competition

      "Barcelona crashed out of the European Cup"

  4. (of a computer, computing system, or software) fail suddenly

    "the project was postponed because the computer crashed"

    fail collapse fold (up) go under founder be ruined cave in
    • (of a patient) suffer a cardiac arrest
  5. enter (a party) without an invitation; gatecrash
    gatecrash come uninvited to sneak into slip into invade butt in on intrude on/into
    • illegally pass (a red traffic light)

      "the cab driver crashed the lights"

  6. go to sleep, especially suddenly or in an improvised setting

    "what was it you said just before I crashed out?"

noun
crash crashes
  1. a violent collision, typically of one vehicle with another or with an object

    "a car crash"

    accident collision bump car crash car accident road accident traffic accident multiple crash multiple collision
    • an instance of an aircraft falling from the sky to hit the land or sea

      "a pilot who survived the crash of his plane"

  2. a sudden loud noise as of something breaking or hitting another object

    "he slammed the phone down with a crash"

  3. a sudden disastrous drop in the value or price of something

    "the crash of 1987"

    • the sudden failure of a business

      "the crash of the company meant that 150 jobs would go"

  4. a sudden failure which puts a computer system out of action

    "system crashes are an everyday hazard"

adjective
crash
  1. done rapidly or urgently and involving a concentrated effort

    "a crash course in Italian"

    intensive concentrated telescoped high-pressure strenuous vigorous all-out thorough in-depth all-absorbing total-immersion rapid urgent
adverb
crash
  1. with a sudden loud sound

    "crash went the bolt"