crash

Plural: crashes

Noun

• a loud resonant repeating noise
• a serious accident (usually involving one or more vehicles)
  • "they are still investigating the crash of the TWA plane"
• a sudden large decline of business or the prices of stocks (especially one that causes additional failures)
• the act of colliding with something
  • "his crash through the window"
• (computer science) an event that causes a computer system to become inoperative
  • "the crash occurred during a thunderstorm and the system has been down ever since"
• A sudden, intense, loud sound, as made for example by cymbals.
• An automobile, airplane, or other vehicle accident.
• A malfunction of computer software or hardware which causes it to shut down or become partially or totally inoperable.
• A sudden large decline of business or the prices of stocks (especially one that causes additional failures).
• A comedown from a drug.
• A group of rhinoceroses.
• A sudden decline in any living form's population levels, often leading to extinction.
• A type of rough linen.

Verb

Verb Forms: crashed, crashing, crashes

• To collide violently, often with a loud noise.
• fall or come down violently
  • "The branch crashed down on my car"
  • "The plane crashed in the sea"
• move with, or as if with, a crashing noise
  • "The car crashed through the glass door"
• undergo damage or destruction on impact
  • "the plane crashed into the ocean"
  • "The car crashed into the lamp post"
• move violently as through a barrier
  • "The terrorists crashed the gate"
• break violently or noisily; smash
• occupy, usually uninvited
  • "My son's friends crashed our house last weekend"
• make a sudden loud sound
  • "the waves crashed on the shore and kept us awake all night"
• enter uninvited; informal
  • "let's crash the party!"
• cause to crash
  • "The terrorists crashed the plane into the palace"
  • "Mother crashed the motorbike into the lamppost"
• hurl or thrust violently
• undergo a sudden and severe downturn
  • "the economy crashed"
  • "will the stock market crash again?"
• stop operating
  • "My computer crashed last night"
• sleep in a convenient place
  • "You can crash here, though it's not very comfortable"
• To collide with something destructively; to fall or come down violently.
• To cause something to collide with something else, especially when this results in damage.
• To hit or strike with force.
• To make a sudden loud noise.
• Ellipsis of gatecrash.
• To accelerate a project or a task or its schedule by devoting more resources to it.
• To make or experience informal temporary living arrangements, especially overnight.
• To give, as a favor.
• To lie down for a long rest, sleep or nap, as from tiredness or exhaustion.
• 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.
• To terminate or halt execution due to an exception.
• To cause an exception that terminates or halts execution.
• To take a sudden and severe turn for the worse; to rapidly and catastrophically deteriorate.
• To take a subject at higher level without having previously studied it.

Adj

• Quick, fast, intensive, impromptu.

Examples

• After driving into a tree last week, grandpa's crashed into a deer this morning.
• After the lightning came the crash of thunder.
• crash course
• crash diet
• Double-clicking this icon crashes the desktop.
• Hey dude, can I crash at your pad?
• His hopes for a comeback will crash if I can just use this S.
• I'm sorry for crashing the bike into a wall. I'll pay for repairs.
• If the system crashes again, we'll have it fixed in the computer shop.
• Joe's crashing Higher Physics, even after I told him it was a bad idea.
• My computer had a crash so I had to reboot it.
• Nobody survived the plane crash.
• She broke two bones in her body in a car crash.
• The piece ended in a crescendo, building up to a crash of cymbals.
• the stock market crash
• Thunder crashed directly overhead.
• We weren't invited to the party so we decided to crash it.
• When the car crashed into a house, the driver was heavily injured.

Synonyms

barge in, break apart, break up, clang, clangor, clangoring, clangour, clank, clash, collapse, dash, doss, doss down, gate-crash, go down, ram, smash, wreck, abend, bomb, catch some z's, crash, doze, repose, rest, saw logs, sleep, sleep a wink, slumber, snooze

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