Crash | Mean of crash in English Dictionary

/ˈkræʃ/

• Verb
• to hit something hard enough to cause serious damage or destruction
1. Investigators are still trying to determine why the airplane crashed. [=why the airplane hit the ground]
2. The car crashed into the fence/wall/guardrail.
3. She crashed into another car.
4. A large meteorite may have crashed into the Earth 65 million years ago.
• to damage (a vehicle) by causing it to hit something
1. She crashed the car into a tree, but no one was hurt.
2. He has crashed two cars, a truck, and a motorcycle.
• to make a loud noise by falling, hitting something, etc.
1. We listened to the waves crashing against the shore.
2. The stuntman crashed through the window on a motorcycle.
3. The walls crashed down around them.
4. He came crashing [=tearing] through the woods.
5. The books crashed to the floor.
6. The whole stack of cans came crashing down. [=fell down with a lot of noise and force]
7. The whole theory came crashing down when it was revealed that some of the supporting evidence had been falsified.
8. His world came crashing down when he lost his job.

• to make a loud noise
1. The cymbals crashed and the trumpets blew.
2. Thunder crashed as the rain started to pour.
• to cause two things to hit against each other and make a loud noise
1. He crashed the cymbals together.
• to stop working suddenly
1. My computer keeps crashing.
• to cause (a computer) to stop working suddenly
1. This program always crashes my computer.
• to go to sleep
1. I was exhausted after the long flight, so I just checked into the hotel and crashed.
• to stay or live for a short time with someone
1. You can crash [=sleep] here tonight.
2. She's crashing with friends for a few days while her apartment is being repaired.
• to go down in value very suddenly and quickly
1. They lost thousands of dollars when the stock market crashed.
• to go to (a party) without being invited
1. He tried to crash the party but they wouldn't let him in.
• to move very quickly and forcefully toward (something, such as the goal in ice hockey)
1. The players crashed the net.
• to fail completely
1. The company crashed and burned after only two years in business.
• Noun
• an accident in which a vehicle is seriously damaged or destroyed by hitting something
1. He was injured in a car crash.
2. Investigators are still trying to determine the cause of the crash.
3. a train/airplane crash
4. An ambulance arrived at the crash site/scene within minutes.
• a very loud noise
1. The pot/glass fell to the floor with a crash.
2. We listened to the crash of waves in the distance.
3. He ended the song with a crash of cymbals.
4. a crash of thunder
• an occurrence in which a computer suddenly stops working
1. I am always experiencing computer crashes.
• a sudden and extreme fall or drop in amount or value
1. They lost thousands of dollars in the stock market crash.
2. a species of fish that has undergone a population crash