crash
/ˈkɹæʃ/ noun B1- A sudden, intense, loud sound, as made for example by cymbals. · The piece ended in a crescendo, building up to a crash of cymbals.· After the lightning came the crash of thunder.
- An automobile, airplane, or other vehicle accident. · She broke two bones in her body in a car crash.· Nobody survived the plane crash.
- A malfunction of computer software or hardware which causes it to shut down or become partially or totally inoperable. · My computer had a crash so I had to reboot it.
- A sudden large decline in the value of money, stocks or other assets, etc., especially one that causes additional economic difficulties. · the stock market crash
- A comedown from a drug.
- A group of rhinoceroses.
- A sudden decline in any living form's population levels, often leading to extinction.
- tarlatan, mull.
Plural crashes
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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.
The assistant had left the front shop for an instant, when he heard a crash, and hurrying in he found a plaster bust of Napoleon, which stood with several other works of art upon the counter, lying shivered into fragments.
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