crash

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• IPA^(key): /kɹæʃ/

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• Rhymes: -æʃ

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).

crash (plural crashes)

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

   The piece ended in a crescendo, building up to a crash of cymbals.

   After the lightning came the crash of thunder.

2. An automobile, airplane, or other vehicle accident.

   She broke two bones in her body in a car crash.

   Nobody survived the plane crash.

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

   Synonym: abend

   My computer had a crash 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 market crash

5. (informal) A comedown from a drug.
6. (collective) A group of rhinoceroses.
   • p. 1991, Patrick F. McManus, “Nincompoopery and Other Group Terms”, in The Grasshopper Trap, Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN, page 103

     One of my favorites among the terms of groups of creatures is a crash of rhinoceros. I can imagine an African guide saying to his client, “Shoot, dammit, shoot! Here comes the whole bloody crash of rhinoceros!”

     Personally, I think I’d just as soon come across a crash of rhinoceros as a knot of toad.

   • 1998, E. Melanie Watt, Black Rhinos, page 19:

     The largest group of black rhinos reported was made up of 13 individuals. A group of rhinos is called a crash.

   • 1999, Edward Osborne Wilson, The Diversity of Life, page 126:

     Out in the water a crash of rhinoceros-like animals browse belly deep through a bed of aquatic plants.

   • 2003, Claude Herve-Bazin, Judith Farr, Kenya and Tanzania, page 23:

     The crash of rhinoceros at Tsavo now numbers almost 200.

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

crash (not comparable)

1. Quick, fast, intensive, impromptu.

   crash course

   crash diet

crash (third-person singular simple present crashes, present participle crashing, simple past and past participle crashed)

1. (intransitive) To collide with something destructively; to fall or come down violently.

   When the car crashed into a house, the driver was heavily injured.

2. (transitive) To cause something to collide with something else, especially when this results in damage.

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

3. (transitive) To hit or strike with force.
   • 2016 June 11, Phil McNulty, “England 1-1 Russia”, in BBC Sport‎:

     Roy Hodgson's side were dominant and fully merited the lead given to them when Eric Dier crashed 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 a sudden loud noise.

   Thunder crashed directly overhead.

5. (transitive, intransitive, slang) Short for gatecrash.

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

   • 1980 March 7, Billy Joel, “You May Be Right”, in Glass Houses‎:

     Friday night I crashed 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 about crashing. 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, page 109:

     Using the project plan, the team started to work out different scenarios to crash 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 I crash at your pad?

8. (transitive, slang) To give, as a favor.
   • 2005, Charlie Williams, Fags and Lager, page 29:

     'I been pissin' blood,' he said, grinning. Then frowning. 'Crash us a tenner, eh?'

   • 2014, David Mitchell, The Bone Clocks, →ISBN, page 99:

     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 could crash 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.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:sleep

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.
    • 2012, Katy Perry, Max Martin, Bonnie McKee, Dr. Luke, Cirkut (lyrics and music), “Wide Awake”, in Teenage Dream: The Complete Confection‎, performed by Katy Perry:

      Falling from cloud nine / Crashing from the high / I'm letting go tonight / Yeah, I'm falling from cloud nine

11. (computing, hardware, software, intransitive) To terminate or halt execution due to an exception.

    Synonym: bomb

    If the system crashes 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 icon crashes the desktop.

13. To take a sudden and severe turn for the worse; to rapidly and catastrophically deteriorate.
    • 1945, Mario Pei, The American Road to Peace: A Constitution for the World, page 20:

      And the unvarying lesson of history is that all such balance of power peaces have crashed 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 market crashed, at the end of a buoyant decade in its domestic economy.

    • 2003, W.M. Roth, Toward an Anthropology of Graphing, page 43:

      Despite the quotas determined by fisheries scientists, the Atlantic cod population crashed in the mid-1980s leading to a complete moratorium for fishing the species within Canadian waters.

    • 2006, Ashok Sengupta, Chaos, Nonlinearity, Complexity, page 302:

      Nature, propelled by its unidirectional increasing entropic disorder, without the containing Schrodinger and de Broglie λ = h/p waves, would have probably crashed 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 to crash, there are several things that I could do for him.

    • 2022, Ioanna T. Kokores, Monetary Policy and Financial Stability, page 147:

      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 that crashed in 2001.

Uncertain; perhaps compare Russian крашени́на (krašenína, “coarse linen”).

crash (uncountable)

1. (textiles) A type of rough linen.
   • 1855, Frederick Douglass, chapter VI, in My 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 coarsest crash 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 with crash, which she placed against the front of the building.

• Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “crash”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

• Rasch, chars

• (Netherlands) IPA^(key): /krɛʃ/

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• Hyphenation: crash
• Homophone: crèche

Borrowed from English crash.

crash m (plural crashes, diminutive crashje n)

1. crash, collision, esp. when involving aircraft
2. economic crash, especially in relation to stock exchanges

   Synonym: krach

3. computer crash

• beurscrash
• computercrash

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

crash

1. inflection of crashen:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
   3. imperative

From English crash.

• IPA^(key): /kʁaʃ/

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crash m (plural crashs)

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

• crasher

Borrowed from English crash.

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

crash m (plural crashes)

1. (economics) crash
2. (computing) crash

   Synonym: crasheo

• “crash”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10