crash
Meanings
noun
- A sudden, intense, loud sound, as made for example by cymbals.
- An automobile, airplane, or other vehicle accident.
- A malfunction of computer software or hardware which causes it to shut down or become partially or totally inoperable.
- A sudden large decline in the value of money, stocks or other assets, etc., especially one that causes additional economic difficulties.
- A comedown from a drug.
- A group of rhinoceroses.
- A sudden decline in any living form's population levels, often leading to extinction.
adj
- Quick, fast, intensive, impromptu.
verb
- To collide with something destructively; to fall or come down violently.
- To cause something to collide with something else, especially when this results in damage.
- To hit or strike with force.
- To make a sudden loud noise.
- Ellipsis of gatecrash.
- To accelerate a project or a task or its schedule by devoting more resources to it.
- To make or experience informal temporary living arrangements, especially overnight.
- To give, as a favor.
- To lie down for a long rest, sleep or nap, as from tiredness or exhaustion.
- 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.
- To terminate or halt execution due to an exception.
- To cause an exception that terminates or halts execution.
noun
- A type of rough linen.
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Etymology
From Middle English crasshen, crasschen, craschen (“to break into pieces”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps from a variant of earlier *crasken, from crasen (“to break”) + -k (formative suffix); or from earlier *craskien, *craksien, a variant of craken (“to crack, break open”) (for form development compare break, brask, brash).
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