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Webster 1913 Edition

Crash

Crash

(krăsh)
,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Crashed
(krăsht)
;
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.]
He shakt his head, and
crasht
his teeth for ire.
Fairfax.

Crash

,
Verb.
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.
Roofs were blazing and walls
crashing
in every part of the city.
Macaulay.
2.
To break with violence and noise;
as, the chimney in falling
crashed
through the roof
.

Crash

,
Noun.
1.
A loud, sudden, confused sound, as of many things falling and breaking at once.
The wreck of matter and the
crash
of worlds.
Addison.
2.
Ruin; failure; sudden breaking down, as of a business house or a commercial enterprise;
as, the stock market c
rash
of 1929
.

Crash

,
Noun.
[L.
crassus
coarse. See
Crass
.]
Coarse, heavy, narrow linen cloth, used esp. for towels.

Webster 1828 Edition

Crash

CRASH

,
Verb.
T.
To break; to bruise.

CRASH

,
Verb.
I.
To make the loud, clattering, multifarious sound of many things falling and breaking at once.
When convulsions cleave the labring earth, before the dismal yawn appears, the ground trembles and heaves, the nodding houses crash.

CRASH

,
Noun.
The loud mingled sound of many things falling and breaking at once; as the sound of a large tree falling and its branches breaking, or the sound of a falling house.

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