'Crash' definitions:
Definition of 'crash'
(from WordNet)
noun
A loud resonant repeating noise; "he could hear the clang of distant bells" [syn: clang, clangor, clangour, clangoring, clank, clash, crash]
noun
A serious accident (usually involving one or more vehicles); "they are still investigating the crash of the TWA plane" [syn: crash, wreck]
noun
A sudden large decline of business or the prices of stocks (especially one that causes additional failures) [syn: crash, collapse]
noun
The act of colliding with something; "his crash through the window"; "the fullback's smash into the defensive line" [syn: crash, smash]
noun
(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"
verb
Fall or come down violently; "The branch crashed down on my car"; "The plane crashed in the sea"
verb
Move with, or as if with, a crashing noise; "The car crashed through the glass door"
verb
Undergo damage or destruction on impact; "the plane crashed into the ocean"; "The car crashed into the lamp post" [syn: crash, ram]
verb
Move violently as through a barrier; "The terrorists crashed the gate"
verb
Break violently or noisily; smash; [syn: crash, break up, break apart]
verb
Occupy, usually uninvited; "My son's friends crashed our house last weekend"
verb
Make a sudden loud sound; "the waves crashed on the shore and kept us awake all night"
verb
Enter uninvited; informal; "let's crash the party!" [syn: barge in, crash, gate-crash]
verb
Cause to crash; "The terrorists crashed the plane into the palace"; "Mother crashed the motorbike into the lamppost"
verb
Hurl or thrust violently; "He dashed the plate against the wall"; "Waves were dashing against the rock" [syn: crash, dash]
verb
Undergo a sudden and severe downturn; "the economy crashed"; "will the stock market crash again?"
verb
Stop operating; "My computer crashed last night"; "The system goes down at least once a week" [syn: crash, go down]
verb
Definition of 'Crash'
From: GCIDE
- Crash \Crash\ (kr[a^]sh), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Crashed (kr[a^]sht); p. pr. & vb. n. Crashing.] [OE. crashen, the same word as crasen to break, E. craze. See Craze.] To break in pieces violently; to dash together with noise and violence. [R.] [1913 Webster]
- He shakt his head, and crasht his teeth for ire. --Fairfax. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Crash'
From: GCIDE
- Crash \Crash\, v. i.
- 1. To make a loud, clattering sound, as of many things falling and breaking at once; to break in pieces with a harsh noise. [1913 Webster]
- Roofs were blazing and walls crashing in every part of the city. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To break with violence and noise; as, the chimney in falling crashed through the roof. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Crash'
From: GCIDE
- Crash \Crash\, n.
- 1. A loud, sudden, confused sound, as of many things falling and breaking at once. [1913 Webster]
- The wreck of matter and the crash of worlds. --Addison. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Ruin; failure; sudden breaking down, as of a business house or a commercial enterprise; as, the stock market crash of 1929. [1913 Webster]
- The last week of October 1929 remains forever imprinted in the American memory. It was, of course, the week of the Great Crash, the stock market collapse that signaled the collapse of the world economy and the Great Depression of the 1930s. From an all-time high of 381 in early September 1929, the Dow Jones Industrial Average drifted down to a level of 326 on October 22, then, in a series of traumatic selling waves, to 230 in the course of the following six trading days. The stock market's drop was far from over; it continued its sickening slide for nearly three more years, reaching an ultimate low of 41 in July 1932. But it was that last week of October 1929 that burned itself into the American consciousness. After a decade of unprecedented boom and prosperity, there suddenly was panic, fear, a yawning gap in the American fabric. The party was over. --Wall street Journal, October 28, 1977. [PJC]
Definition of 'Crash'
From: GCIDE
- Crash \Crash\, n. [L. crassus coarse. See Crass.] Coarse, heavy, narrow linen cloth, used esp. for towels. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'crash'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- a habit,
- accident,
- acquired tolerance,
- acute alcoholism,
- addictedness,
- addiction,
- alcoholism,
- amphetamine withdrawal symptoms,
- appulse,
- atomize,
- awake the dead,
- bang,
- bang into,
- bankruptcy,
- barbiturate addiction,
- barbiturism,
- barge in,
- be poised,
- be ruined,
- bear market,
- bearish market,
- beating,
- become insolvent,
- billow,
- blast,
- blast the ear,
- blow,
- boom,
- bouncing check,
- break,
- break in,
- break in upon,
- break into pieces,
- break to pieces,
- break up,
- breakdown,
- breaking up,
- breakup,
- brunt,
- bulldozing,
- bulling,
- bump,
- bump into,
- burst,
- burst in,
- bust,
- butt in,
- calamity,
- cannon,
- carambole,
- carom,
- carom into,
- cascade,
- casualty,
- catabasis,
- cataclysm,
- cataract,
- catastrophe,
- cave,
- cave-in,
- chain smoking,
- charge in,
- chronic alcoholism,
- chute,
- clap,
- clash,
- cocainism,
- collapse,
- collide,
- collision,
- comb,
- come between,
- come down,
- come into collision,
- comedown,
- concuss,
- concussion,
- confront each other,
- conquering,
- conquest,
- contretemps,
- crack,
- crack up,
- crack-up,
- crash in,
- crash into,
- crash the gates,
- craving,
- crawl in,
- creep in,
- crescendo,
- cropper,
- crowd in,
- crump,
- crunch,
- crush,
- cut in,
- cut to pieces,
- dash,
- dash into,
- deafen,
- deathblow,
- debacle,
- deceleration,
- declension,
- declination,
- decline,
- decline and fall,
- declining market,
- decrescendo,
- defeat,
- deflation,
- defluxion,
- demolish,
- dependence,
- descend,
- descending,
- descension,
- descent,
- destruction,
- diffuse,
- diminuendo,
- din,
- dip down,
- dipsomania,
- disaster,
- disperse,
- disrupt,
- dive,
- doss down,
- down,
- downbend,
- downcome,
- downcurve,
- downfall,
- downflow,
- downgrade,
- downpour,
- downrush,
- downtrend,
- downturn,
- downward trend,
- drive,
- drop,
- drop down,
- drop off,
- dropping,
- drubbing,
- drug addiction,
- drug culture,
- drug dependence,
- dwindling,
- ebb,
- ebb and flow,
- edge in,
- elbow in,
- encounter,
- encroach,
- entrench,
- explode,
- explosion,
- fail,
- failure,
- fall,
- fall dead,
- fall down,
- fall flat,
- fall foul of,
- fall in,
- fall off,
- fall short,
- fall stillborn,
- fall through,
- falling,
- fill the air,
- fission,
- flap,
- flop,
- foist in,
- fold,
- fold up,
- force,
- foul,
- fragment,
- go bankrupt,
- go broke,
- go down,
- go downhill,
- go into receivership,
- go to pot,
- go to smash,
- go under,
- go up,
- gravitate,
- gravitation,
- grief,
- grind,
- habituation,
- hammering,
- heave,
- hiding,
- hit,
- hit against,
- hit the hay,
- hit the sack,
- horn in,
- hurt,
- hurtle,
- ill hap,
- impact,
- impinge,
- impingement,
- impose,
- impose on,
- impose upon,
- inclination,
- infiltrate,
- infringe,
- insinuate,
- insolvency,
- insufficient funds,
- interfere,
- interlope,
- interpose,
- intervene,
- intrude,
- invade,
- irrupt,
- jar,
- jolt,
- kip down,
- kited check,
- knock,
- knock against,
- lambasting,
- lapse,
- lathering,
- licking,
- lift,
- lose altitude,
- make mincemeat of,
- mastery,
- mauling,
- meet,
- meeting,
- mince,
- misadventure,
- mischance,
- misfortune,
- mishap,
- nasty blow,
- near-miss,
- nicotine addiction,
- nose dive,
- obtrude,
- off market,
- onslaught,
- overcoming,
- overdraft,
- overdrawn account,
- overthrow,
- overturn,
- parachute,
- peak,
- peal,
- percuss,
- percussion,
- physical dependence,
- pileup,
- pitch,
- plummet,
- plummeting,
- plunge,
- popple,
- pounce,
- pour down,
- pratfall,
- precipitate,
- press in,
- psychological dependence,
- pulverize,
- push in,
- put on,
- put upon,
- quietus,
- rain,
- ramming,
- rap,
- rapids,
- rattle the windows,
- receivership,
- remission,
- rend the air,
- rend the ears,
- report,
- resound,
- retreat,
- retreating market,
- ring,
- rise,
- rise and fall,
- rock the sky,
- roll,
- ruin,
- run,
- run into,
- rush in,
- sack out,
- sack up,
- sag,
- sagging market,
- scatter,
- scend,
- send,
- shatter,
- shipwreck,
- shiver,
- shock,
- shut down,
- sideswipe,
- slam,
- slam into,
- slap,
- slat,
- sledgehammering,
- slink in,
- slip in,
- slowdown,
- slump,
- smack,
- smack into,
- smash,
- smash in,
- smash into,
- smash up,
- smash-up,
- smashing,
- smashup,
- sneak in,
- soft market,
- splat,
- splinter,
- split the eardrums,
- split the ears,
- squash,
- squeeze in,
- squish,
- staggering blow,
- startle the echoes,
- steal in,
- stoop,
- storm in,
- strike,
- strike against,
- stumble,
- stun,
- subdual,
- subduing,
- subjugation,
- subsidence,
- surge,
- swap,
- swell,
- swoop,
- tailspin,
- tap,
- thrashing,
- throng in,
- thrust in,
- thrusting,
- thunder,
- thwack,
- tolerance,
- topple,
- toss,
- total loss,
- tragedy,
- trench,
- trend downward,
- trespass,
- trimming,
- trouncing,
- tumble,
- turn in,
- undoing,
- undulate,
- vanquishment,
- wane,
- washout,
- waterfall,
- Waterloo,
- wave,
- whack,
- wham,
- whap,
- whipping,
- whomp,
- whop,
- withdrawal sickness,
- withdrawal symptoms,
- work in,
- worm in,
- wrack,
- wreck