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crash English

Meaning crash meaning

What does crash mean?
Definitions in simple English

crash Noun

— A crash is something that happens between things. Something that comes together. I saw a horrible crash on my way home. Two cars had hit each other. — A crash is a loud sound like a clang that happens when two things hit each other. I heard the crash of the cymbals clearly.

crash Adjective

— If something is crash, it is very quick; it is very fast.

crash Verb

— If something crashes, it hits something else. This could be the ground. We crashed into each other because we were not looking. The plane crashed (hit the ground), killing everyone on it. — If you crash something, you cause it to hit something. I crashed my car. Now I have to walk. — If you crash somewhere, you sleep there. I'm too tired to get home, could I just crash here? — If you crash, you were on drugs and are now tired or sick because the drugs are gone. He felt so good when he was high, but when he crashed he wanted to die.

crash

— verb fall or come down violently The branch crashed down on my car The plane crashed in the sea — noun (= clang) a loud resonant repeating noise he could hear the clang of distant bells — noun a serious accident (usually involving one or more vehicles) they are still investigating the crash of the TWA plane — verb move with, or as if with, a crashing noise The car crashed through the glass door — verb undergo damage or destruction on impact the plane crashed into the ocean The car crashed into the lamp post — verb break violently or noisily; smash — verb move violently as through a barrier The terrorists crashed the gate — noun a sudden large decline of business or the prices of stocks (especially one that causes additional failures) — noun (= smash) the act of colliding with something his crash through the window the fullback's smash into the defensive line — noun (computer science) an event that causes a computer system to become inoperative the crash occurred during a thunderstorm and the system has been down ever since — verb (= go down) stop operating My computer crashed last night The system goes down at least once a week — verb cause to crash The terrorists crashed the plane into the palace Mother crashed the motorbike into the lamppost — verb make a sudden loud sound the waves crashed on the shore and kept us awake all night — verb (= dash) hurl or thrust violently He dashed the plate against the wall Waves were dashing against the rock — verb undergo a sudden and severe downturn the economy crashed will the stock market crash again? — verb occupy, usually uninvited My son's friends crashed our house last weekend — verb enter uninvited; informal let's crash the party! — verb sleep in a convenient place You can crash here, though it's not very comfortable

Synonyms crash synonyms

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crash English » English

smash collision collapse collide impact wreck clash fall crack accident bump clatter strike hit gate-crash bang thud ruin failure dash crush slump shock noise fail crackle conflict collide with catastrophe thunder slam roar mishap misfortune knock go down dent clank clangour clangor clang clack breakdown break down break tumble snap smack shiver rumble

Topics crash topics

What do people use crash to talk about?
Social behavior Prosperity, trouble Trouble

Accident
Universe, creation Water Movement of water

Wave
Person Sense, perceive Hear

Types of sounds
Social behavior Social activity Music

Musical instrument
Work and occupation Business organization

Economics
Physical actions Move Manner of movement

Move noisily
Physical actions Arrange

Multiple things moving
Physical actions Divide into pieces

Break
Physical actions Physical impact

Hit

Conjugation crash conjugation

How do you conjugate crash?

crash · verb

Examples crash examples

How do I use crash in a sentence?

Simple sentences

My car was wrecked in the crash.
Tom sent his last text message just three minutes before the crash.
How did the plane crash come about?
The sole survivor of the crash was a baby.
Few, if any, passengers survived the crash.
All the passengers aboard were killed in the crash.
As many as 400 passengers were killed in the crash.
The building may crash at any time.
I hope neither of them was injured in the crash.
The police are investigating the cause of the crash.
The dish fell on the floor with a crash.
There were three deaths in the car crash.
He survived the plane crash.
She was the only one to survive the crash.
She died in a plane crash.
She was an orphan who lost her parents in a plane crash.
Rumors of a Wall Street crash sparked a dollar selling spree.
During the Depression in the 1930's, many wealthy people lost everything in the stock market crash.
I'll never forget the sound the crash made.
He affirmed that he saw the crash.
She won't take an airplane for fear of a crash.

Movie subtitles

Right. and your popularity will crash to the Earth.
I tried an emergency spinal corpectomy on a 15-year-old car crash victim.
We need a crash cart. Look, Charlie.
Are you gonna crash here?
I let you crash here, within 24 hours, you're trashing the place.
And I'm here to warn you about the dangers of having a buddy come crash on your couch.
There's been a crash.
The shell comes down with a crash.
It'll crash down and kill anything underneath it.
That was the year of the crash. Men didn't know whether they had money.
Then the crash comes.
Freeze, get nutty from no oxygen, crash, break your neck.
You're gonna crash.
He's also the man who doped out vitamin A for night blindness optically correct goggles and shoulder safety belts to stop crash injuries.
In order to put together the first map of the Galaxy, Oort, the director of the Leiden Observatory, organised a crash-action.
It's like we can finally put the bus crash behind us.
They're gonna crash into us!
Zeke, did you hear that terrible crash?
Plane crash.
She crash her automobile.
I wish I were in a position to ignore the whole matter, but you know, madame, the stock market, a bank crash.
The crash coming up is very well executed in all respects.
Don't worry, Mr. Goldfarb. I'll crash Schnarzan's party, all right.
Trying to crash the movies or something?
You saw him crash.
She's just an old windbag trying to crash the limelight.
You will crash down many thousand feet.
What do you think I got here, a plane crash or a set of quadruplets?
Crash crew, this is Control, testing.
Stand by in crash position on runway 2-0.
Crash, square able 7.
We learnt a lot from Tony's crash.
You were supposed to go over the bar and crash into the glasses!

News and current affairs

Any train accident or airplane crash is now at first suspected of being an act of terrorism.
The state of economic knowledge was just as bad in the Great Depression that followed the 1929 stock market crash.
On at least two occasions in 1998, bad news could have set off a crash in American stock prices and an economic recession.
The financial crash introduced hard budget constraints on Russian enterprises; they realized they had to make money, prompting rapid monetization.
Indeed, economists failed to forecast most of the major crises in the last century, including the severe 1920-21 slump, the 1980-82 back-to-back recessions, and the worst of them all, the Great Depression after the 1929 stock-market crash.
That is pretty much how most people reacted to the stories about bankers' bonuses, when the great crash of 2007-2008 wiped out banks, businesses, shareholders' savings, growth, and jobs.
While a distraught world is still trying to fathom the consequences of this global crash and to mitigate its impact, the call of the next black swan can already be heard: the global climate disaster.
He appears to have been worried, like the manager of a Ponzi scheme, that any hint of doubt could cause the whole movement to crash.
There were no protective mechanisms to prevent a global liquidity glut from developing, and then, in combination with US regulatory failings, from producing a spectacular housing boom and crash.
One could criticize the Chinese regulator on the grounds that the effect of its moves to increase margin requirements did not last long; or one could criticize it on the grounds that its moves caused the recent crash.
That moment, I realized, was more than just a plane crash.
Once portfolio investors start selling their dollar-denominated securities, a stampede will follow, causing the dollar's value to crash and triggering the first major global financial crisis of the twenty-first century.
From here it is but a short step to proclaiming that the American model cannot work in Europe because it is socially reprehensible and, in any case, poised to crash any day now.
Not only did America's bubble crash, but also it now appears that much of the US economic miracle of the 1990s never happened.
With household wealth seriously damaged by the housing crash and other asset-price declines, pensions and retirement provisions are in disarray.
Countries that had been growing rapidly in the run-up to the great crash of 2008 typically had trade surpluses (or very small deficits).
Unlicensed drivers, he found, are nearly five times more likely to be in a fatal crash.
Then, because this is a soap opera, Song suddenly dies in a car crash, just as he is rushing to the hospital - while being chased by corruption investigators! - to check on his sweetheart and their unborn baby boy.
So, with the bond market appearing ripe for a dramatic correction, many are wondering whether a crash could drag down markets for other long-term assets, such as housing and equities.
But it probably will have little to do with a bond-market crash.
But so would a scenario in which a sudden bond-market crash drags down prices of stocks and housing.
An intense crash course lasting four weeks followed, enough to instruct them in their new jobs.
There is an old joke about two men who are trapped by a lion in the jungle after a plane crash.
So, despite all the handwringing over a Chinese crash, the rapid shift toward a services-based economy is tempering downside pressures in the old manufacturing-based economy.
To illustrate his argument, Benedict noted that the international financial crash, partly a consequence of insatiable greed, had provoked debate about the need for an ethical basis for economic behavior.
Brown, who became prime minister in 2007, let spending and borrowing rip, so that when the global crash hit Britain was already suffering from a structural fiscal deficit and a credit bubble.

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