Word: crash Part of Speech: verb 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). Pronunciation: /ˈkɹæʃ/, [ˈkʰɹʷæʃ] 1. To collide with something destructively; to fall or come down violently. Labels: intransitive Example: When the car crashed into a house, the driver was heavily injured. Example: After driving into a tree last week, grandpa's crashed into a deer this morning. 2. To cause something to collide with something else, especially when this results in damage. Labels: transitive Example: I'm sorry for crashing the bike into a wall. I'll pay for repairs. 3. To hit or strike with force. Labels: transitive Example: 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. Example: 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. Example: Thunder crashed directly overhead. 5. Ellipsis of gatecrash. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, ambitransitive, ellipsis, slang Example: We weren't invited to the party so we decided to crash it. Example: Friday night I crashed your party Saturday I said, "I'm sorry" Sunday came and trashed me out again 6. To accelerate a project or a task or its schedule by devoting more resources to it. Labels: transitive Example: 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. To make or experience informal temporary living arrangements, especially overnight. Labels: intransitive, slang Example: Hey dude, can I crash at your pad? Example: Then before you know it you’ve missed the last train back and you’re crashing on the sofa. 8. To give, as a favor. Labels: slang, transitive Example: 'I been pissin' blood,' he said, grinning. Then frowning. 'Crash us a tenner, eh?' Example: Crash us a cancer stick, Fitz: I could bloody murder a fag, as I delight in telling Americans 9. To lie down for a long rest, sleep or nap, as from tiredness or exhaustion. Labels: intransitive, slang 10. 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. Labels: intransitive Example: Falling from cloud nine / Crashing from the high / I'm letting go tonight / Yeah, I'm falling from cloud nine 11. To terminate or halt execution due to an exception. Labels: intransitive Example: If the system crashes again, we'll have it fixed in the computer shop. 12. To cause an exception that terminates or halts execution. Labels: transitive Example: Double-clicking this icon crashes the desktop. 13. To take a sudden and severe turn for the worse; to rapidly and catastrophically deteriorate. Example: 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. Example: In October 1929, the United States' stock market crashed, at the end of a buoyant decade in its domestic economy. 14. To take a subject at higher level without having previously studied it. Labels: Scotland, transitive Example: Joe's crashing Higher Physics, even after I told him it was a bad idea.