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crash 1       (krāsh)  Pronunciation Key 
v.   crashed, crash·ing, crash·es

v.   intr.
    1. To break violently or noisily; smash.
    2. To undergo sudden damage or destruction on impact: Their car crashed into a guardrail. The airplane crashed over the ocean.
    3. To find temporary lodging or shelter, as for the night.
    4. To go to sleep.
  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
    1. To find temporary lodging or shelter, as for the night.
    2. 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.
    1. A smashing to pieces.
    2. A collision, as between two automobiles. See Synonyms at collision.
    3. 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.
    4. A sudden failure of a program or operating system, usually without serious consequences.
  3. A sudden severe downturn: a market crash; a population crash.
  4. Computer Science
    1. 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.
    2. 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.


[Middle English crasschen; probably akin to crasen, to shatter; see craze.]

crash'er n.
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