crash
/ˈkɹæʃ/ verb B1- To collide with something destructively; to fall or come down violently. · When the car crashed into a house, the driver was heavily injured.· After driving into a tree last week, grandpa's crashed into a deer this morning.
- To cause something to collide with something else, especially when this results in damage. · I'm sorry for crashing the bike into a wall. I'll pay for repairs.
- To hit or strike with force.
- To make a sudden loud noise. · Thunder crashed directly overhead.
- To accelerate a project or a task or its schedule by devoting more resources to it.
- To make or experience informal temporary living arrangements, especially overnight. · Hey dude, can I crash at your pad?
- To give, as a favor.
- To lie down for a long rest, sleep or nap, as from tiredness or exhaustion.
He/she/it crashes · Past crashed · Past participle crashed · -ing form crashing
Verb forms
- Base form
- crash
- He/she/it
- crashes
- Past
- crashed
- Past participle
- crashed
- -ing form
- crashing
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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Go, my friend, reserve your strength for the moment when the crash shall come.”
Then the Lion put his strong front legs against the tree and pushed with all his might, and slowly the big tree tipped and fell with a crash across the ditch, with its top branches on the other side.
The Tin Woodman began to use his axe at once, and, just as the two Kalidahs were nearly across, the tree fell with a crash into the gulf, carrying the ugly, snarling brutes with it, and both were dashed to pieces on the sharp rocks at the bottom.
At the same moment a violent crash was heard, and cries of distress.
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