crash
Other forms: crashed; crashing; crashes
Boom! Bam! Pow! A crash is when two things collide, or smash, into each other. Crash and smash have similar meanings and sounds.
You can start to worry when you hear the word crash. Many people die in car and airplane crashes every year. Other crashes are less physical yet just as bad. In a stock-market crash, a lot of people lose a lot of money. You can also use crash as a verb. You'd better not crash your bike into the coffee shop window! If your computer crashes, you will probably lose all the data in it.
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break violently or noisily; smashsynonyms: break apart, break uptype of:disintegratebreak into parts or components or lose cohesion or unity
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undergo damage or destruction on impact
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cause to crash
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move with, or as if with, a crashing noise“The car crashed through the glass door”type of:movemove so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion
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move violently, as through a barrier
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hurl or thrust violently
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fall or come down violently
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make a sudden loud sound
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a loud resonant repeating noise
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a serious accident (usually involving one or more vehicles)
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the act of colliding with something
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undergo a sudden and severe downturn“the economy crashed”“will the stock market crash again?”type of:changeundergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature
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a sudden large decline of business or the prices of stocks (especially one that causes additional failures)synonyms: collapse
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stop operating
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(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”types:head crash(computer science) a crash of a read/write head in a hard disk drive (usually caused by contact of the head with the surface of the magnetic disk)type of:
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sleep in a convenient place
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occupy, usually uninvited
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enter uninvited; informal
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Vocabulary lists containing crash
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