crash

Meaning

1. A sudden, intense, loud sound, as made for example by cymbals.
2. An automobile, airplane, or other vehicle accident.
3. A malfunction of computer software or hardware which causes it to shut down or become partially or totally inoperable.
4. A sudden large decline of business or the prices of stocks (especially one that causes additional failures).
5. (informal) A comedown from a drug.
6. A group of rhinoceroses.
7. A sudden decline in any living form's population levels, often leading to extinction.

smash

collide with

break apart

bump against

be destroyed

break to pieces

clickety-click

come to naught

fall to the ground

hit the sack

knock into

shower down

heavy fall

crack-up

crashing sound

smash into

impaction collide

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/kɹæʃ/

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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