CRASH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does crash mean? 

• CRASH (noun)
  The noun CRASH has 5 senses:

1. a loud resonant repeating noise

2. a serious accident (usually involving one or more vehicles)

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

4. the act of colliding with something

5. (computer science) an event that causes a computer system to become inoperative

  Familiarity information: CRASH used as a noun is common.

• CRASH (verb)
  The verb CRASH has 13 senses:

1. fall or come down violently

2. move with, or as if with, a crashing noise

3. undergo damage or destruction on impact

4. move violently as through a barrier

5. break violently or noisily; smash

6. occupy, usually uninvited

7. make a sudden loud sound

8. enter uninvited; informal

9. cause to crash

10. hurl or thrust violently

11. undergo a sudden and severe downturn

12. stop operating

13. sleep in a convenient place

  Familiarity information: CRASH used as a verb is familiar.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CRASH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A loud resonant repeating noise

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Synonyms:

clang; clangor; clangoring; clangour; clank; clash; crash

Context example:

he could hear the clang of distant bells

Hypernyms ("crash" is a kind of...):

noise (sound of any kind (especially unintelligible or dissonant sound))

Derivation:

crash (move with, or as if with, a crashing noise)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A serious accident (usually involving one or more vehicles)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Synonyms:

crash; wreck

Context example:

they are still investigating the crash of the TWA plane

Hypernyms ("crash" is a kind of...):

accident (an unfortunate mishap; especially one causing damage or injury)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "crash"):

prang (a crash involving a car or plane)

Derivation:

crash (undergo damage or destruction on impact)

Sense 3

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Synonyms:

collapse; crash

Hypernyms ("crash" is a kind of...):

happening; natural event; occurrence; occurrent (an event that happens)

Derivation:

crash (undergo a sudden and severe downturn)

Sense 4

Meaning:

The act of colliding with something

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

crash; smash

Context example:

the fullback's smash into the defensive line

Hypernyms ("crash" is a kind of...):

hit; hitting; striking (the act of contacting one thing with another)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "crash"):

impaction; impingement (a sharp collision produced by striking or dashing against something)

Derivation:

crash (undergo damage or destruction on impact)

Sense 5

Meaning:

(computer science) an event that causes a computer system to become inoperative

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Context example:

the crash occurred during a thunderstorm and the system has been down ever since

Hypernyms ("crash" is a kind of...):

misadventure; mischance; mishap (an instance of misfortune)

Domain category:

computer science; computing (the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "crash"):

head crash ((computer science) a crash of a read/write head in a hard disk drive (usually caused by contact of the head with the surface of the magnetic disk))

Derivation:

crash (stop operating)

• CRASH (verb)

Conjugation:

Sense 1

Meaning:

Fall or come down violently

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Context example:

The plane crashed in the sea

Hypernyms (to "crash" is one way to...):

come down; descend; fall; go down (move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s PP

Sentence example:

The branches crash from the trees

Sense 2

Meaning:

Move with, or as if with, a crashing noise

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Context example:

The car crashed through the glass door

Hypernyms (to "crash" is one way to...):

move (move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion)

Sentence frame:

Something is ----ing PP

Derivation:

crash (a loud resonant repeating noise)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Undergo damage or destruction on impact

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

crash; ram

Context example:

The car crashed into the lamp post

Hypernyms (to "crash" is one way to...):

clash; collide (crash together with violent impact)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s PP

Sentence example:

These cars won't crash

Derivation:

crash (the act of colliding with something)

crash (a serious accident (usually involving one or more vehicles))

Sense 4

Meaning:

Move violently as through a barrier

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Context example:

The terrorists crashed the gate

Hypernyms (to "crash" is one way to...):

pass (go across or through)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP

Sense 5

Meaning:

Break violently or noisily; smash

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

break apart; break up; crash

Hypernyms (to "crash" is one way to...):

disintegrate (break into parts or components or lose cohesion or unity)

Verb group:

crash (cause to crash)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP

Sentence example:

The glass tubes crash

Sense 6

Meaning:

Occupy, usually uninvited

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Context example:

My son's friends crashed our house last weekend

Hypernyms (to "crash" is one way to...):

lodge in; occupy; reside (live (in a certain place))

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 7

Meaning:

Make a sudden loud sound

Classified under:

Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling

Context example:

the waves crashed on the shore and kept us awake all night

Hypernyms (to "crash" is one way to...):

go; sound (make a certain noise or sound)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Sense 8

Meaning:

Enter uninvited; informal

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

barge in; crash; gate-crash

Context example:

let's crash the party!

Hypernyms (to "crash" is one way to...):

intrude; irrupt (enter uninvited)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP

Derivation:

crasher (someone who gets in (to a party) without an invitation or without paying)

Sense 9

Meaning:

Cause to crash

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Context example:

Mother crashed the motorbike into the lamppost

Hypernyms (to "crash" is one way to...):

collide (cause to collide)

Cause:

break apart; break up; crash (break violently or noisily; smash)

Verb group:

break apart; break up; crash (break violently or noisily; smash)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "crash"):

wrap (crash into so as to coil around)

prang (crash)

ditch (crash or crash-land)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 10

Meaning:

Hurl or thrust violently

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

crash; dash

Context example:

Waves were dashing against the rock

Hypernyms (to "crash" is one way to...):

cast; hurl; hurtle (throw forcefully)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP

Sense 11

Meaning:

Undergo a sudden and severe downturn

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Context example:

will the stock market crash again?

Hypernyms (to "crash" is one way to...):

change (undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Derivation:

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

Sense 12

Meaning:

Stop operating

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

crash; go down

Context example:

The system goes down at least once a week

Hypernyms (to "crash" is one way to...):

break; break down; conk out; die; fail; give out; give way; go; go bad (stop operating or functioning)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Derivation:

crash ((computer science) an event that causes a computer system to become inoperative)

Sense 13

Meaning:

Sleep in a convenient place

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Synonyms:

crash; doss; doss down

Context example:

You can crash here, though it's not very comfortable

Hypernyms (to "crash" is one way to...):

bed down; bunk down (go to bed)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP

 Context examples 

Motor vehicle crashes are the leading cause of death and disabilities among drivers aged 15 to 20 years.

(Reaching for objects while driving may raise teen crash risk nearly sevenfold, National Institutes of Health)

But as she crossed the threshold, crash! the bird threw the millstone down on her head, and she was crushed to death.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

The cosmic crash was a defining event in the early history of the Milky Way and reshaped the structure of our galaxy, fashioning both the galaxy’s inner bulge and its outer halo.

(The Gaia Sausage: the major collision that changed the Milky Way, University of Cambridge)

The crash also created a ring of rocky debris around Mars that may have later clumped together to form its moons, Phobos and Deimos.

(Ancient Asteroid Impact Explains Martian Geological Mysteries, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

As it fell with a crash they looked that way, and the next moment all of them were filled with wonder.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

From the thicket-covered hillside came a crashing of underbrush, and then, forty feet above them, on the edge of the sheer wall of rock, appeared a wolf's head and shoulders.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

On all sides there was a rending and crashing of wood and steel and canvas.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

It is my strong impression that I heard it, and yet, among the crash of the gale and the creaking of an old house, I may possibly have been deceived.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

One hinge snapped, then the other, and down came the door with a crash.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In the crash of his whole world, with love on the pinnacle, the crash of magazinedom and the dear public was a small crash indeed.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)