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English

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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FromMiddle Englishcrasshen,crasschen,craschen(“to break into pieces”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps from a variant of earlier*crasken, fromcrasen(“to break”) +‎-k(formative suffix); or from earlier*craskien,*craksien, a variant ofcraken(“to crack, break open”) (for form development comparebreak,brask,brash).

Noun

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crash (pluralcrashes)

  1. A sudden, intense,loudsound, as made for example bycymbals.
    The piece ended in a crescendo, building up to acrash of cymbals.
    After the lightning came thecrash of thunder.
  2. Anautomobile, airplane, or other vehicle accident.
    She broke two bones in her body in a carcrash.
    Nobody survived the planecrash.
  3. (computing) Amalfunction ofcomputersoftware orhardware which causes it to shut down or become partially or totally inoperable.
    Synonym:abend
    My computer had acrash so I had to reboot it.
  4. (finance) A sudden large decline of business or the prices of stocks (especially one that causes additional failures).
    the stock marketcrash
  5. (informal) Acomedown from a drug.
  6. (collective) A group ofrhinoceroses.
    • p.1991, Patrick F. McManus, “Nincompoopery and Other Group Terms”, inThe Grasshopper Trap, Henry Holt and Company,→ISBN, page 103
      One of my favorites among the terms of groups of creatures is acrash of rhinoceros. I can imagine an African guide saying to his client, “Shoot, dammit, shoot! Here comes the whole bloodycrash of rhinoceros!”
      […] Personally, I think I’d just as soon come across acrash of rhinoceros as a knot of toad.
    • 1998, E. Melanie Watt,Black Rhinos, page19:
      The largest group of black rhinos reported was made up of 13 individuals. A group of rhinos is called acrash.
    • 1999, Edward Osborne Wilson,The Diversity of Life, page126:
      Out in the water acrash of rhinoceros-like animals browse belly deep through a bed of aquatic plants.
    • 2003, Claude Herve-Bazin, Judith Farr,Kenya and Tanzania, page23:
      Thecrash of rhinoceros at Tsavo now numbers almost 200.
  7. (ecology) A sudden decline in any living form's population levels, often leading to extinction.
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Translations
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loud sound
vehicle accident
computer malfunction
sudden large decline of business
comedown of a drug
herd of rhinos
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Adjective

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crash (notcomparable)

  1. Quick,fast,intensive,impromptu.
    crash diet
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quick, fast, intensive

Verb

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crash (third-person singular simple presentcrashes,present participlecrashing,simple past and past participlecrashed)

  1. (intransitive) Tocollide with somethingdestructively; tofall orcome downviolently.
    When the carcrashed into a house, the driver was heavily injured.
    After driving into a tree last week, grandpa'scrashed into a deer this morning.
  2. (transitive) To cause something tocollide with something else, especially when this results in damage.
    I'm sorry forcrashing the bike into a wall. I'll pay for repairs.
  3. (transitive) Tohit orstrike withforce.
    • 2016 June 11, Phil McNulty, “England 1-1 Russia”, inBBC Sport‎[1]:
      Roy Hodgson's side were dominant and fully merited the lead given to them when Eric Diercrashed a 20-yard free-kick high past keeper Igor Akinfeev with 17 minutes left.
    • 2022, John Nogowski,Last Time Out: Big-League Farewells of Baseball's Greats, page 8:
      Even the staid New York Times was gushing: “Rising to the glorious heights of his heyday, Babe Ruth, the Sultan of Swat,crashed out three home runs against the Pittsburgh Pirates Saturday afternoon but it was not enough."
  4. To make asuddenloudnoise.
    Thundercrashed directly overhead.
  5. (ambitransitive, slang)Ellipsis ofgatecrash.[from 1920s]
    We weren't invited to the party so we decided tocrash it.
    • 1980 March 7,Billy Joel, “You May Be Right”, inGlass Houses‎[2]:
      Friday night Icrashed your party
      Saturday I said, "I'm sorry"
      Sunday came and trashed me out again
    • 2019 November 8, Dan Shive,El Goonish Shive (webcomic),Comic for Friday, Nov 8, 2019:
      "Anyway, sorry aboutcrashing. I know you're doing a sort of 'talk freely about magic' thing, and I don't have any of my own, but..."
  6. (transitive, management) To accelerate a project or a task or its schedule by devoting more resources to it.
    • 2008, Rick A. Morris with Brette McWhorter Sember,Project management that works, page109:
      Using the project plan, the team started to work out different scenarios tocrash the schedule and bring the date to the regulatory deadline.
  7. (intransitive, slang) To make or experience informal temporary living arrangements, especially overnight.
    Hey dude, can Icrash at your pad?
  8. (transitive, slang) To give, as a favor.
    • 2005, Charlie Williams,Fags and Lager, page29:
      'I been pissin' blood,' he said, grinning. Then frowning. 'Crash us a tenner, eh?'
    • 2014, David Mitchell,The Bone Clocks,→ISBN, page99:
      Crash us a cancer stick, Fitz: I could bloody murder a fag, as I delight in telling Americans
    • 2015, Lucy Diamond,Summer at Shell Cottage,→ISBN:
      'I'll show you what needs doing. But first..." She hesitated. 'I don't suppose you couldcrash me a ciggy, while you're here, could you?'
  9. (intransitive, slang) To lie down for a long rest, sleep or nap, as from tiredness or exhaustion.[from 1940s]
    Synonyms:seeThesaurus:sleep
  10. (intransitive) Toexperience aperiod ofdepression and/orlethargy after aperiod ofeuphoria, as after theeuphoriceffect of apsychotropicdrug hasdissipated.
  11. (computing, hardware, software, intransitive) Toterminate orhaltexecution due to anexception.
    Synonym:bomb
    If the systemcrashes again, we'll have it fixed in the computer shop.
  12. (computing, hardware, software, transitive) To cause an exception that terminates or halts execution.
    Double-clicking this iconcrashes the desktop.
  13. Totake asudden andsevereturn for theworse; torapidly andcatastrophicallydeteriorate.
    • 1945, Mario Pei,The American Road to Peace: A Constitution for the World, page20:
      And the unvarying lesson of history is that all such balance of power peaces havecrashed into new conflicts, as soon as the unstable equilibrium was disturbed, witness the Peace of Westphalia, the Congress of Vienna, and, in our own time, Versailles.
    • 1994,National Economic Review - Volumes 28-30, page 2:
      In October 1929, the United States' stock marketcrashed, at the end of a buoyant decade in its domestic economy.
    • 2003, W.M. Roth,Toward an Anthropology of Graphing, page43:
      Despite the quotas determined by fisheries scientists, the Atlantic cod populationcrashed in the mid-1980s leading to a complete moratorium for fishing the species within Canadian waters.
    • 2006, Ashok Sengupta,Chaos, Nonlinearity, Complexity, page302:
      Nature, propelled by its unidirectional increasing entropic disorder, without the containing Schrodinger and de Broglie λ =h/p waves, would have probablycrashed out of existence long ago!
    • 2016, Thomas J. Cortez,It Happened on My Shift:
      I told him that if his patients got in trouble and started tocrash, there are several things that I could do for him.
    • 2022, Ioanna T. Kokores,Monetary Policy and Financial Stability, page147:
      The analysis presented in Figure 5.2 highlights the importance of technological shocks, which were for example vital in explaining the Information Technology driven bubble of the late 1990s thatcrashed in 2001.
  14. (transitive, Scotland, education) To take a subject athigher level without having previously studied it.
    Joe'scrashing HigherPhysics, even after I told him it was a bad idea.
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Translations
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to collide, fall or come down violently
to severely damage or destroy by causing to collide with something else
slang: to turn up without having been invited
to make informal temporary living arrangments
computing: to terminate unexpectedly

Etymology 2

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Uncertain; perhaps compareRussianкрашени́на(krašenína,“coarse linen”).

Noun

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crash (uncountable)

  1. (textiles) A type of roughlinen.
    • 1855,Frederick Douglass, chapter VI, inMy Bondage and My Freedom. […], New York; Auburn, N.Y.: Miller, Orton & Mulligan […],→OCLC:
      The yearly allowance of clothing on this plantation, consisted of two tow-linen shirts—such linen as the coarsestcrash towels are made of[…]
    • 1899,Kate Chopin,The Awakening:
      Unlocking the door of her bath-room she went inside, and soon emerged, bringing a rug, which she spread upon the floor of the gallery, and two huge hair pillows covered withcrash, which she placed against the front of the building.
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plain, rough linen

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Dutch

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Etymology 1

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Borrowed fromEnglishcrash.

Noun

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crash m (pluralcrashes,diminutivecrashje n)

  1. crash,collision, esp. when involvingaircraft
  2. economic crash, especially in relation tostock exchanges
    Synonym:krach
  3. computer crash
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Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the correspondinglemma form.

Verb

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crash

  1. inflection ofcrashen:
    1. first-personsingularpresentindicative
    2. (in case ofinversion)second-personsingularpresentindicative
    3. imperative

French

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Etymology

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FromEnglishcrash.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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crash m (pluralcrashs)

  1. (of an aircraft)crash landing
  2. (economics)crash
  3. (computing)crash

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Spanish

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Etymology

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Borrowed fromEnglishcrash.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈkɾaʃ/[ˈkɾaʃ]
  • Rhymes:-aʃ
  • Syllabification:crash

Noun

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crash m (pluralcrashes)

  1. (economics)crash
  2. (computing)crash
    Synonym:crasheo

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