crash
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɹæʃ/
rhymes: -æʃ
Forms: form: crashes
form: crashing
form: crashed
form: crashed
Etymology: 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).
Senses: examples: text: When the car crashed into a house, the driver was heavily injured.
text: After driving into a tree last week, grandpa's crashed into a deer this morning.
glosses: To collide with something destructively; to fall or come down violently.
examples: text: I'm sorry for crashing the bike into a wall. I'll pay for repairs.
glosses: To cause something to collide with something else, especially when this results in damage.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 2016 June 11, Phil McNulty, “England 1-1 Russia”, in BBC Sport:
text: 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."
ref: 2022, John Nogowski, Last Time Out: Big-League Farewells of Baseball's Greats, page 8:
glosses: To hit or strike with force.
examples: text: Thunder crashed directly overhead.
glosses: To make a sudden loud noise.
examples: text: We weren't invited to the party so we decided to crash it.
text: Friday night I crashed your party
Saturday I said, "I'm sorry"
Sunday came and trashed me out again
ref: 1980 March 7, Billy Joel, “You May Be Right”, in Glass Houses:
text: "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..."
ref: 2019 November 8, Dan Shive, El Goonish Shive (webcomic), Comic for Friday, Nov 8, 2019:
glosses: Ellipsis of gatecrash.
examples: text: Using the project plan, the team started to work out different scenarios to crash the schedule and bring the date to the regulatory deadline.
ref: 2008, Rick A. Morris with Brette McWhorter Sember, Project management that works, page 109:
topics: management
glosses: To accelerate a project or a task or its schedule by devoting more resources to it.
examples: text: Hey dude, can I crash at your pad?
glosses: To make or experience informal temporary living arrangements, especially overnight.
examples: text: 'I been pissin' blood,' he said, grinning. Then frowning. 'Crash us a tenner, eh?'
ref: 2005, Charlie Williams, Fags and Lager, page 29:
text: Crash us a cancer stick, Fitz: I could bloody murder a fag, as I delight in telling Americans
ref: 2014, David Mitchell, The Bone Clocks, →ISBN, page 99:
text: '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?'
ref: 2015, Lucy Diamond, Summer at Shell Cottage, →ISBN:
glosses: To give, as a favor.
synonyms: word: crash
word: doze
word: repose
word: rest
word: saw logs
word: catch some z's
word: sleep
word: sleep a wink
word: slumber
word: snooze
glosses: To lie down for a long rest, sleep or nap, as from tiredness or exhaustion.
examples: text: Falling from cloud nine / Crashing from the high / I'm letting go tonight / Yeah, I'm falling from cloud nine
ref: 2012, Katy Perry, Max Martin, Bonnie McKee, Dr. Luke, Cirkut, “Wide Awake”, in Teenage Dream: The Complete Confection, performed by Katy Perry:
glosses: 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.
examples: text: If the system crashes again, we'll have it fixed in the computer shop.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
synonyms: bomb
qualifier: hardware
glosses: To terminate or halt execution due to an exception.
examples: text: Double-clicking this icon crashes the desktop.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
qualifier: hardware
glosses: To cause an exception that terminates or halts execution.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1945, Mario Pei, The American Road to Peace: A Constitution for the World, page 20:
text: In October 1929, the United States' stock market crashed, at the end of a buoyant decade in its domestic economy.
ref: 1994, National Economic Review - Volumes 28-30, page 2:
text: 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.
ref: 2003, W.M. Roth, Toward an Anthropology of Graphing, page 43:
text: 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!
ref: 2006, Ashok Sengupta, Chaos, Nonlinearity, Complexity, page 302:
text: I told him that if his patients got in trouble and started to crash, there are several things that I could do for him.
ref: 2016, Thomas J. Cortez, It Happened on My Shift:
text: 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.
ref: 2022, Ioanna T. Kokores, Monetary Policy and Financial Stability, page 147:
glosses: To take a sudden and severe turn for the worse; to rapidly and catastrophically deteriorate.
examples: text: Joe's crashing Higher Physics, even after I told him it was a bad idea.
topics: education
glosses: To take a subject at higher level without having previously studied it.
Derived terms: crashability
crashable
crash and burn
crash-dive
crasher
crash in
crash-land
crash to desktop
crashy
gatecrash
uncrashed