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Webster 1913 Edition
Crash
Crash
(krăsh)
, Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Crashed
(krăsht)
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Crashing
.] 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 roofCrash
,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 1929Crash
,Noun.
[L.
crassus
coarse. See Crass
.] Coarse, heavy, narrow linen cloth, used esp. for towels.
Webster 1828 Edition
Crash
CRASH
,Verb.
T.
CRASH
,Verb.
I.
When convulsions cleave the labring earth, before the dismal yawn appears, the ground trembles and heaves, the nodding houses crash.
CRASH
,Noun.
Definition 2024
crash
crash
English
Noun
crash (plural crashes)
- An automobile, airplane, or other vehicle accident.
- She broke two bones in her body in a car crash.
- Nobody survived the plane crash
- A computer malfunction that is caused by faulty software, and makes the system either partially or totally inoperable.
- My computer had a crash so I had to reboot it.
- A loud sound as made for example by cymbals.
- The piece ended in a crescendo, building up to a crash of cymbals.
- A sudden large decline of business or the prices of stocks (especially one that causes additional failures)
- the stock market crash
- A comedown of a drug.
- A group of rhinoceroses.
- p. 1991, Patrick F. McManus, “Nincompoopery and Other Group Terms”, in The Grasshopper Trap, Henry Holt and Company, ISBN 0-8050-0111-5, page 103,
- One of my favorites among the terms of groups of creatures is a crash of rhinoceros. I can imagine an African guide saying to his client, “Shoot, dammit, shoot! Here comes the whole bloody crash of rhinoceros!”
- […] Personally, I think I’d just as soon come across a crash of rhinoceros as a knot of toad.
- 1998, E. Melanie Watt, Black Rhinos, page 19
- The largest group of black rhinos reported was made up of 13 individuals. A group of rhinos is called a crash.
- 1999, Edward Osborne Wilson, The Diversity of Life, page 126
- Out in the water a crash of rhinoceros-like animals browse belly deep through a bed of aquatic plants.
- 2003, Claude Herve-Bazin, Judith Farr Kenya and Tanzania, page 23
- The crash of rhinoceros at Tsavo now numbers almost 200.
- p. 1991, Patrick F. McManus, “Nincompoopery and Other Group Terms”, in The Grasshopper Trap, Henry Holt and Company, ISBN 0-8050-0111-5, page 103,
- dysphoria
Derived terms
Translations
vehicle accident
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computer malfunction
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loud sound
sudden large decline of business
Adjective
crash (not comparable)
- quick, fast, intensive
- crash course
- crash diet
Translations
quick, fast, intensive
Verb
crash (third-person singular simple present crashes, present participle crashing, simple past and past participle crashed)
- (transitive) To collide with something destructively, fall or come down violently.
- (transitive) To severely damage or destroy something by causing it to collide with something else.
- I'm sorry for crashing the bike into a wall. I'll pay for repairs.
- (transitive, slang) (via gatecrash) To attend a social event without invitation.
- We weren't invited to the party so we decided to crash it.
- (transitive, management) To accelerate a project or a task or its schedule by devoting more resources to it.
- 2008, Rick A. Morris; Brette McWhorter Sember, Project management that works, page 109:
- Using the project plan, the team started to work out different scenarios to crash the schedule and bring the date to the regulatory deadline.
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- (intransitive) To make or experience informal temporary living arrangements.
- To give, as a favor.
- 2005, Charlie Williams, Fags and Lager, page 29:
- 'I been pissin' blood,' he said, grinning. Then frowning. 'Crash us a tenner, eh?'
- 2014, David Mitchell, The Bone Clocks, ISBN 9780340921609, page 99:
- Crash us a cancer stick, Fitz: I could bloody murder a fag, as I delight in telling Americans
- 2015, Lucy Diamond, Summer at Shell Cottage, ISBN 1743538073:
- 'I'll show you what needs doing. But first..." She hesitated. 'I don't suppose you could crash me a ciggy, while you're here, could you?'
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- (slang) To lie down for a long rest, sleep or nap, as from tiredness or exhaustion.
- (computing, software, intransitive) To terminate extraordinarily.
- If the system crashes again, we'll have it fixed in the computer shop.
- (computing, software, transitive) To cause to terminate extraordinarily.
- Double-clicking this icon crashes the desktop.
- (intransitive) 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.
- (transitive) To hit or strike with force
Translations
to collide, fall or come down violently
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to severely damage or destroy by causing to collide with something else
slang: to turn up without having been invited
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to make informal temporary living arrangments
computing: to terminate unexpectedly
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Etymology 2
From Russian крашени́на (krašenína, “coarse linen”).
Noun
crash (uncountable)
- (fibre) Plain linen.