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| 1. | [ noun ] a loud resonant repeating noise | |
| Synonyms: | clangor clash clangoring clang clank jangle clangour | |
| Examples: | "he could hear the clang of distant bells" |
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| Related terms: | noise clang clangor | |
| 2. | [ verb ] fall or come down violently | |
| Examples: | "The branch crashed down on my car" "The plane crashed in the sea" |
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| Related terms: | descend | |
| 3. | [ noun ] a serious accident (usually involving one or more vehicles) | |
| Synonyms: | wreck | |
| Examples: | "they are still investigating the crash of the TWA plane" |
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| Related terms: | accident prang | |
| 4. | [ verb ] move with, or as if with, a crashing noise | |
| Examples: | "The car crashed through the glass door" |
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| Related terms: | move clang | |
| 5. | [ verb ] undergo damage or destruction on impact | |
| Synonyms: | ram | |
| Examples: | "the plane crashed into the ocean" "The car crashed into the lamp post" |
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| Related terms: | collide collision | |
| 6. | [ noun ] the act of colliding with something | |
| Synonyms: | collision smash | |
| Examples: | "his crash through the window" "the fullback's smash into the defensive line" |
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| Related terms: | hit impingement | |
| 7. | [ verb ] break violently or noisily; smash; | |
| Synonyms: | break_up break_apart | |
| Related terms: | disintegrate | |
| 8. | [ noun ] a sudden large decline of business or the prices of stocks (especially one that causes additional failures) | |
| Synonyms: | collapse | |
| Related terms: | happening collapse | |
| 9. | [ adjective ] highly concentrated or intense | |
| Examples: | "a crash course" |
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| Related terms: | intense | |
| 10. | [ verb ] move violently as through a barrier | |
| Examples: | "The terrorists crashed the gate" |
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| Related terms: | pass | |
| 11. | [ verb ] undergo a sudden and severe downturn | |
| Examples: | "the economy crashed" "will the stock market crash again?" |
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| Related terms: | change | |
| 12. | [ verb ] (housing) occupy, usually uninvited | |
| Examples: | "My son's friends crashed our house last weekend" |
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| Related terms: | occupy | |
| 13. | [ verb ] cause to crash | |
| Examples: | "The terrorists crashed the car into the gate of the palace" |
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| Related terms: | collide prang ditch | |
| 14. | [ verb ] hurl or thrust violently | |
| Synonyms: | dash | |
| Examples: | "He dashed the plate against the wall" "Waves were dashing against the rock" |
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| Related terms: | hurl | |
| 15. | [ verb ] enter uninvited; informal | |
| Synonyms: | barge_in gate-crash | |
| Examples: | : "let's crash the party!" |
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| Related terms: | intrude gatecrasher | |
| 16. | [ verb ] (computer science) stop operating | |
| Synonyms: | go_down | |
| Examples: | "My computer crashed last night" "The system goes down at least once a week" |
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| Related terms: | fail | |
| 17. | [ verb ] sleep in a convenient place | |
| Synonyms: | doss_down doss | |
| Examples: | "You can crash here, though it's not very comfortable" |
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| Related terms: | bed_down dosser | |
| 18. | [ noun ] (computer science) an event that causes a computer system to become inoperative | |
| Examples: | "the crash occurred during a thunderstorm and the system has been down ever since" |
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| Related terms: | mishap head_crash computer_science | |
| Similar spelling: |
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