crash

Meaning

Noun

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. (collective) A group of rhinoceroses.
7. A sudden decline in any living form's population levels, often leading to extinction.

Adj

Quick, fast, intensive, impromptu.

Verb

1. (intransitive) To collide with something destructively; to fall or come down violently.
2. (transitive) To cause something to collide with something else, especially when this results in damage.
3. (transitive) To hit or strike with force.
4. To make a sudden loud noise.
5. (abbreviation, alt-of, ambitransitive, ellipsis, slang) Ellipsis of gatecrash.
6. (transitive) To accelerate a project or a task or its schedule by devoting more resources to it.
7. (intransitive, slang) To make or experience informal temporary living arrangements, especially overnight.
8. (slang, transitive) To give, as a favor.
9. (intransitive, slang) To lie down for a long rest, sleep or nap, as from tiredness or exhaustion.
10. (intransitive) 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.
11. (intransitive) To terminate or halt execution due to an exception.
12. (transitive) To cause an exception that terminates or halts execution.
13. To take a sudden and severe turn for the worse; to rapidly and catastrophically deteriorate.
14. (Scotland, transitive) To take a subject at higher level without having previously studied it.

Synonyms

smash

collision

💥

collapse

collide

impact

wreck

clash

accident

crack

fall

bump

clatter

gate-crash

hit

strike

bang

dash

💨

thud

ruin

failure

crush

conflict

collide with

fail

slump

noise

shock

⚡

crackle

catastrophe

knock

misfortune

go down

mishap

clank

clangor

clack

break down

thunder

🌩️

roar

clang

breakdown

clangour

dent

break

slam

land

mischance

calamity

beat

impinge

Translations

choque

💥

chocar

scontro

Absturz

Krach

crash

abstürzen

Zusammenstoß

💥

krach

crollo

choc

collision

💥

accident

xocar

krachen

Pronounced as (IPA)

/kɹæʃ/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: crasshen

In summary

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).