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–adjective

1.	absolute; complete; utter: a crashing bore.

2.	unusual or superlative; exceptional: a crashing celebration.

[Origin: 1925–30; crash¹ + -ing²

]

—Related forms

crash·ing·ly, adverb

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crash¹ Audio Help   (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.
To make a sudden loud noise: breakers crashing against the rocks.
To move noisily or so as to cause damage: went crashing through the woods.
To undergo a sudden severe downturn, as a market or economy.
Computer Science To stop functioning due to a crash.
Slang To undergo a period of unpleasant feeling or depression as an aftereffect of drug-taking.
Slang
1. To find temporary lodging or shelter, as for the night.
2. To go to sleep.

v. tr.

To cause to crash.
To dash to pieces; smash.
Informal To join or enter (a party, for example) without invitation.

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.
A sudden severe downturn: a market crash; a population crash.
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.
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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crash·ing Audio Help (krāsh'ĭng) Pronunciation Key
adj. Total; absolute: a crashing bore.

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crashing
adjective
informal intensifiers; "what a bally (or blinking) nuisance"; "a bloody fool"; "a crashing bore"; "you flaming idiot" [syn: bally]

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Crashing

Crash\ (kr?sh>), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Crashed (kr?sht); p. pr. & vb. n. Crashing.] [OE. crashen, the same word as crasen to break, E. craze. See Craze.] To break in pieces violently; to dash together with noise and violence. [R.]

He shakt his head, and crasht his teeth for ire. --Fairfax.

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