crash

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verb

ˈkrash

crashed; crashing; crashes

Synonyms of crash next

transitive verb

: to break violently and noisily : smash

: to damage (an airplane) in landing

: to cause to make a loud noise

crash the cymbals together

: to force (one's way) through with loud crashing noises

: to enter or attend without invitation or without paying

crash the party

: to move toward aggressively (as in fighting for a rebound)

basketball players crashing the boards

: to cause (a computer system, component, or program) to crash

intransitive verb

: to break or go to pieces with or as if with violence and noise

: to fall, land, or hit with destructive force

: to decline suddenly and steeply

of a computer system, component, or program : to suffer a sudden major failure usually with attendant loss of data

: to make a smashing noise

thunder crashing overhead

: to move or force one's way with or as if with a crash

crashes into the room

slang : to experience the aftereffects (such as fatigue, irritability, headache, or depression) of a physiologically or psychologically active substance

Prolonged use of cocaine—repeatedly cycles of euphoria, crashing, and craving—probably brings about changes in the postsynaptic neurons …—

Robert Wilbur

Crashing from a sugar high never helped anyone remain awake all night.—

Justin Rocket Silverman

informal

: to go to bed or fall asleep

also : to reside temporarily : stay

crashing with friends for a few days

: to lose energy : to become very fatigued

It happens every afternoon like clockwork … I'm crashing, my body says. I need salt. Sugar. Fat. Now.—

James Oseland

crasher noun

crash

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noun (1)

: a loud sound (as of things smashing)

a crash of thunder

: a breaking to pieces by or as if by collision

: an instance of crashing

a plane crash

a system crash

: a sudden decline (as of a population) or failure (as of a business)

a stock market crash

informal : the sudden, powerful occurrence of adverse aftereffects (such as fatigue, irritability, headache, or depression) following the use of a physiologically or psychologically active substance

… the jitters, euphoria and eventual crash that come after caffeine or amphetamines.—

Graham Lawton

When it comes to snacks, bars can have a nutritional edge over candy. Many are lower in fat and sugars. And some bars might be less likely to cause sugar rushes followed by crashes.—

Consumer Reports

crash

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adjective

: marked by a concerted effort and effected in the shortest possible time especially to meet emergency conditions

a crash renovation program

crash

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noun (2)

: a coarse fabric used for draperies, toweling, and clothing and for strengthening joints of cased-in books

Example Sentences

Verb She crashed the car into a tree, but no one was hurt. He has crashed two cars, a truck, and a motorcycle. We listened to the waves crashing against the shore. The stuntman crashed through the window on a motorcycle. The walls crashed down around them. The books crashed to the floor. The cymbals crashed and the trumpets blew. Thunder crashed as the rain started to pour. He crashed the cymbals together. See More

Recent Examples on the Web

Verb

And in the third episode, all those plots crash into each other, and the true villain of the season appears to have been revealed. —

Alex Cranz, The Verge, 2 Mar. 2023 If that fails, the system can release an autonomous interceptor drone that is designed to crash into the incoming UAV. —

WIRED, 24 Feb. 2023 Should his teams crash the boards, or get back and play transition defense? —

Andy Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 3 Jan. 2023 Rather than stay on the crowded Las Vegas strip, guests can crash in this nearby Conestoga wagon (without any risk of dysentery like in the pioneer days). —

Meg St-esprit, Good Housekeeping, 29 Dec. 2022 The ship will crash on Knowhere, but Cosmo (Maria Bakalova) will save everyone with the help of her telekinetic powers. —

Maren Estrada, BGR, 9 Dec. 2022 However, Argonne provides evidence against naysayers who think EV adoption will crash the electrical grid—in 2021, charging EVs accounted for only 0.15 percent of all US electricity consumption. —

Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 28 Nov. 2022 The next year, a plane carrying Buddy Holly would crash on tour in Iowa. —

Bill Wyman, Vulture, 28 Oct. 2022 In a mission straight out of Armageddon, NASA will purposely crash a spaceship into an asteroid Monday evening in the hope of changing its orbit. —

Mike Miller, EW.com, 26 Sep. 2022

Adjective

This allowed for a post-crash resumption of the decadeslong bull market in bonds that continued right up to the pandemic. —

Red Jahncke, WSJ, 16 May 2022 During the training, trainees will develop skills including emergency vehicle operations, defensive tactics, communications, hazardous materials, first-aid, post-crash investigations and truck inspections. —

Post-tribune Staff, chicagotribune.com, 15 Oct. 2021 In the late 1960s Singapore had embarked on a crash program of industrialization, offering incentives to multinational companies, especially in such high-tech fields as electronics and semiconductors, to set up factories on the island. —

IEEE Spectrum, 10 Dec. 2022 In this company, only Sunak, who warned of the idiocy of Truss’s crash economic program, has much credibility. —

Tom Mctague, The Atlantic, 21 Oct. 2022 Beyond the surface-level plot similarities, Lost provided a blueprint for Yellowjackets’s gripping dual timelines—using pre-crash flashbacks to reveal the history of its myriad characters. —

Hayley Maitland, Vogue, 22 Jan. 2022 In the post-crash years, Pennsylvania witnessed a rapid growth in drilling. —

Whitney Mallett, Curbed, 30 Oct. 2021 The chinook catch rate eventually climbed back to pre-crash levels. —

jsonline.com, 2 Sep. 2021 Just as housing played an outsized role in pre-crash financial markets, so does advertising in the digital economy. —

Gilad Edelman, Wired, 5 Oct. 2020

Noun

He’s joined by the only other survivor of the crash, a young woman named Koa (Ariana Greenblatt). —

David Fear, Rolling Stone, 10 Mar. 2023 The company added that the cause of the crash remains under investigation. —

Faris Tanyos, CBS News, 10 Mar. 2023 Preliminary information and video footage captured of the crash show the Piper Cub attempted to dive to the right immediately before the collision, Spencer said. —

Amanda Rabines, Orlando Sentinel, 9 Mar. 2023 Footage of the crash has since been shared on YouTube and Reyes' TikTok, where it has been viewed nearly 13 million times. —

Jason Hahn, Peoplemag, 8 Mar. 2023 Law enforcement and surveillance records have raised questions about whether the police were sloppy in their investigation of the crash, or gave Paul Murdaugh favorable treatment. —

Nicholas Bogel-burroughs, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2023 Thousands of Model Y EVs were recalled by Tesla last month after it was discovered that bolts in the vehicles’ back seats had not been correctly secured, increasing the risk of injury in the event of a crash. —

Jess Weatherbed, The Verge, 8 Mar. 2023 The cause of the crash will be investigated by the National Transportation Safety Board and the Federal Aviation Administration, the sheriff's office said. —

Dennis Romero, NBC News, 8 Mar. 2023 Polk State College student Zachary Jean Mace, 19, and Sunrise Aviation pilot and flight instructor Faith Irene Baker, 24, were pronounced dead as a result of the crash. —

Landon Mion, Fox News, 8 Mar. 2023 See More

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