crash
 I. crash1 (krăsh)v. crashed, crash·ing, crash·esv. intr.
1.
a. To break violently or noisily; smash.
b. To undergo sudden damage or destruction on impact:
Their car crashed into a guardrail. The airplane crashed over the ocean.
2. To make a sudden loud noise:
breakers crashing against the rocks.
3. To move noisily or so as to cause damage:
went crashing through the woods.
4. To undergo a sudden severe downturn, as a market or economy.
5. Computer Science. To stop functioning due to a crash.
6. Slang. To undergo a period of unpleasant feeling or depression as an aftereffect of drug-taking.
7. Slang.
a. To find temporary lodging or shelter, as for the night.
b. To go to sleep.v. tr.
1. To cause to crash.
2. To dash to pieces; smash.
3. Informal. To join or enter (a party, for example) without invitation.n.
1. A sudden loud noise, as of an object breaking.
2.
a. A smashing to pieces.
b. A collision, as between two automobiles. See Synonyms at collision.
3. A sudden severe downturn:
a market crash; a population crash.
4. Computer Science.
a. A sudden failure of a hard drive caused by damaging contact between the head and the storage surface, often resulting in the loss of data on the drive.
b. A sudden failure of a program or operating system, usually without serious consequences.
5. Slang. Mental depression after drug-taking.adj. Informal
Of or characterized by an intensive effort to produce or accomplish:
a crash course on income-tax preparation; a crash diet.Idiom:crash and burn Slang
1. To fail utterly.
2. To fall asleep from exhaustion.
3. To wipe out, as in skateboarding. [Middle English crasschen; probably akin to crasen, to shatter. See craze.] crashʹer n. II. crash2 (krăsh)n.
1. A coarse, light, unevenly woven fabric of cotton or linen, used for towels and curtains.
2. Starched reinforced fabric used to strengthen a book binding or the spine of a bound book. [From Russian krashenina, colored linen, from krashenie, coloring, from krasit', to color. See ker-3 in Indo-European Roots.]
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