Definition of crashing
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:superlative
- a crashing effect
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Examples of crashing in a Sentence
a crashing bore, he can turn any party into a funeral
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In practice, that means Facebook finds significantly more crashing bugs in a shorter amount of time.
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Apple’s once-unstoppable growth had come to a crashing halt: The number of iPhones sold was down 13 percent, and the company posted its first revenue decline in 13 years.
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First Known Use of crashing
1924
crashing Synonyms
Synonyms
all-out, arrant, blank, blooming [chiefly British], bodacious [Southern & Midland], categorical (also categoric), clean, complete, consummate, cotton-picking, absolute, damn, damned, dead, deadly, definite, downright, dreadful, fair, flat, flat-out, out-and-out, outright, perfect, plumb, profound, pure, rank, regular, sheer, simple, stark, stone, straight-out, thorough, thoroughgoing, total, unadulterated, unalloyed, unconditional, unmitigated, unqualified, utter, veryRelated Words
authentic, classic, genuine, real, veritable; constant, endless, eternal, perpetual, undying, unremitting; extreme, unrestricted; confirmed, habitual, hopeless, inveterate; extraordinary, frightful, horrible, huge, main, superlative, supreme, surpassing, terrible, terrificNear Antonyms
doubtful, dubious, equivocal, qualified, questionable, restricted, uncertainCRASHING Defined for English Language Learners
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