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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