Word Finder - crash

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A sudden, intense, loud sound, as made for example by cymbals.

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After the lightning came the crash of thunder.

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An automobile, airplane, or other vehicle accident.

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Nobody survived the plane crash

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A malfunction of computer software or hardware which causes it to shut down or become partially or totally inoperable.

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My computer had a crash so I had to reboot it.

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A sudden large decline of business or the prices of stocks (especially one that causes additional failures).

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the stock market crash

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A comedown from a drug.

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(collective) A group of rhinoceroses.

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To collide with something destructively, fall or come down violently.

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To severely damage or destroy something by causing it to collide with something else.

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I'm sorry for crashing the bike into a wall. I'll pay for repairs.

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(via gatecrash) To attend a social event without invitation, usually with unfavorable intentions.

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We weren't invited to the party so we decided to crash it.

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To accelerate a project or a task or its schedule by devoting more resources to it.

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To make or experience informal temporary living arrangements, especially overnight.

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Hey dude, can I crash at your pad?

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To give, as a favor.

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To lie down for a long rest, sleep or nap, as from tiredness or exhaustion.

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(hardware) To terminate extraordinarily.

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If the system crashes again, we'll have it fixed in the computer shop.

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(hardware) To cause to terminate extraordinarily.

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Double-clicking this icon crashes the desktop.

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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.

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To hit or strike with force

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(of a patient's condition) To take a sudden and severe turn for the worse; to rapidly deteriorate.

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To make a sudden loud noise.

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Thunder crashed directly overhead.

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Quick, fast, intensive, impromptu.

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crash diet

A crash came from the hallway.

There was another terrible crash and something huge collapsed.

With a sinking feeling, Jessi realized her world was going to crash down on her this weekend.

The crisis was by no means a sudden crash, and even when the failures began to take place they were spread over a period of sixteen weeks.

You look like a nice safe guy, not some whacko, so is it okay if I crash here for the night?

This may con tinue for weeks before the final crash takes place.

Fogs occur during summer and early autumn, and furious gales may be expected four or five times in the year, when the crash of the Atlantic waves is audible for 20 m.

A woman at the last house up the road heard the crash.

He'd barely survived the helo crash, she assessed, shocked.

There was a crash, and one of the barracks collapsed.

The crash came just as Jackson was leaving office; the whole burden fell on his successor, Van Buren.

Especially in his later plays a verse and a couplet will crash out with fulgurous brilliancy, and then be succeeded by pages of very second-rate declamation or argument.

Everything they hadn't transplanted after the helo crash had been transplanted this time around.

Peeling off the mask, he waited for the world to crash down around him and people to lynch him.

When the crash came and the national treasury was found to be without resources to meet current expenses, further issues of $110,000,000 in currency were made.

He died in a plane crash in 1996 in Nigeria.

I thought it odd none were found, but they didn't find the pilot or anyone else from the crash either.

Many interior towns lost half their population and some virtually all their population as a result of this emigration; and it precipitated a real estate crash in San Francisco that threatened temporary ruin.

But she doesn't know the difference between a normal broom and a witches broomstick and boy, did she crash!

I'll let you imagine what happened (If you need a clue - crash bang wallop DSQ ).

The incremental average covariance and the incremental realized variance are found to be negative during the 1987 crash and the 1992 ERM crisis.

Case History Brian injured his back in a helicopter crash.

This week is the anniversary of the terrible Paddington rail crash.

The helmets were modified motorcycle crash helmets with a cowl added around the bottom to cover the chin and neck area.

A crash cymbal is a single cymbal, normally 14 to 18 inches.

The record levels of debt and the housing crash will both exacerbate each other as the crash heralds recession and then general deflation.

Prechter has said that he expects that the crash in stock markets will be accompanied by a period of global economic deflation.

The crash happened during a heavy downpour at around ten past five last night.

Richard is making a good recovery from a horrific crash behind the wheel of a jet-powered dragster at the Elvington airfield last month.

All of the crew took emergency landing positions which were in the main fuselage of the aircraft to prepare for a crash landing.

Second course Circles crash through the tidal wave of monster post grunge rock that is Why.

You'll see a big silver hangar to your left, with a crash gate entrance.

Joe said it was the way he tucked in his shoulders that enabled them to get through the almost head-on crash.

The Hood Concept Six range has hi-tech soft knitted Aramid protecting the main crash points.

Yet my car crash was to prove the inspiration for my business.

Bad points are slowness, occasional lockups and one crash.

According to some sources, the crash was due to a technical malfunction.

Surf can crash and roar and play the bullyboy or can be like the caress of a lovely mistress out to please.

I did a crash course on running a motel and became the Night Manager.

What impacts network outage, server crash, or disk failure have on a business?

A jet flying overhead could crash into my office.

Housing ' crash ' looking remote The possibility of a ' crash ' in the housing market is looking increasingly unlikely, experts believe.

Seconds later Crash bags its second award of the night, scooping the sister honor for best original screenplay.

Last weekend five UK military personnel were killed in a helicopter crash in Basra, including the first British servicewoman to die in action.

Great Danes are like young colts, rather skittish and inclined to crash into things.

The real worry is that rather than a housing slowdown the UK could be heading for a housing crash.

They can make computers sluggish or cause them to crash.

Crash the undergrowth, execute an ambush and shoot the stag - what could be more fun!

Crash has an endless stream of lives; in fact, there are several unique ways in which you can cause him to die.

A month later, very sudden my uncle mark was killed in a car crash in Ayr.