[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

crash \crash\, n. l. crassus coarse. see crass.
   coarse, heavy, narrow linen cloth, used esp. for towels.
   1913 webster
see also:
crass 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

crash \crash\, n.
   1. a loud, sudden, confused sound, as of many things falling
      and breaking at once.
      1913 webster

            the wreck of matter and the crash of worlds.
                                                  --addison.
      1913 webster

   2. ruin; failure; sudden breaking down, as of a business
      house or a commercial enterprise; as, the stock market
      crash of 1929.
      1913 webster

            the last week of october 1929 remains forever
            imprinted in the american memory. it was, of course,
            the week of the great crash, the stock market
            collapse that signaled the collapse of the world
            economy and the great depression of the 1930s. from
            an all-time high of 381 in early september 1929, the
            dow jones industrial average drifted down to a level
            of 326 on october 22, then, in a series of traumatic
            selling waves, to 230 in the course of the following
            six trading days.
            the stock market's drop was far from over; it
            continued its sickening slide for nearly three more
            years, reaching an ultimate low of 41 in july 1932.
            but it was that last week of october 1929 that
            burned itself into the american consciousness. after
            a decade of unprecedented boom and prosperity, there
            suddenly was panic, fear, a yawning gap in the
            american fabric. the party was over.  --wall street
                                                  journal,
                                                  october 28,
                                                  1977.
      pjc

[3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

crash \crash\ kra^sh, v. t. imp.  p. p. crashed
   kra^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.
   1913 webster

         he shakt his head, and crasht his teeth for ire.
                                                  --fairfax.
   1913 webster
see also:
crashed crashing craze 

[4] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

crash \crash\, v. i.
   1. to make a loud, clattering sound, as of many things
      falling and breaking at once; to break in pieces with a
      harsh noise.
      1913 webster

            roofs were blazing and walls crashing in every part
            of the city.                          --macaulay.
      1913 webster

   2. to break with violence and noise; as, the chimney in
      falling crashed through the roof.
      1913 webster

[5] : WordNet (r) 2.0

crash
     n 1: a loud resonant repeating noise; "he could hear the clang of
          distant bells" syn: clang, clangor, clangour, clangoring,
           clank, clash
     2: a serious accident usually involving one or more vehicles;
        "they are still investigating the crash of the twa plane"
        syn: wreck
     3: a sudden large decline of business or the prices of stocks
        especially one that causes additional failures syn: collapse
     4: the act of colliding with something; "his crash through the
        window"; "the fullback's smash into the defensive line"
        syn: smash
     5: computer science an event that causes a computer system to
        become inoperative; "the crash occurred during a
        thunderstorm and the system has been down ever since"
     v 1: fall or come down violently; "the branch crashed down on my
          car"; "the plane crashed in the sea"
     2: move with, or as if with, a crashing noise; "the car crashed
        through the glass door"
     3: undergo damage or destruction on impact; "the plane crashed
        into the ocean"; "the car crashed into the lamp post"
        syn: ram
     4: move violently as through a barrier; "the terrorists crashed
        the gate"
     5: break violently or noisily; smash; syn: break up, break
        apart
     6: occupy, usually uninvited; "my son's friends crashed our
        house last weekend"
     7: enter uninvited; informal; "let's crash the party" syn: barge
        in, gate-crash
     8: cause to crash; "the terrorists crashed the car into the
        gate of the palace"
     9: hurl or thrust violently; "he dashed the plate against the
        wall"; "waves were dashing against the rock" syn: dash
     10: undergo a sudden and severe downturn; "the economy crashed";
         "will the stock market crash again?"
     11: stop operating; "my computer crashed last night"; "the
         system goes down at least once a week" syn: go down
     12: sleep in a convenient place; "you can crash here, though
         it's not very comfortable" syn: doss, doss down
see also:
clang clangor clangour clangoring clank clash 
wreck collapse smash ram break up 
break apart barge in gate-crash dash go down 
doss doss down 

[6] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

404 moby thesaurus words for "crash":
   waterloo, a habit, accident, acquired tolerance, acute alcoholism,
   addictedness, addiction, alcoholism,
   amphetamine withdrawal symptoms, appulse, atomize, awake the dead,
   bang, bang into, bankruptcy, barbiturate addiction, barbiturism,
   barge in, be poised, be ruined, bear market, bearish market,
   beating, become insolvent, billow, blast, blast the ear, blow,
   boom, bouncing check, break, break in, break in upon,
   break into pieces, break to pieces, break up, breakdown,
   breaking up, breakup, brunt, bulldozing, bulling, bump, bump into,
   burst, burst in, bust, butt in, calamity, cannon, carambole, carom,
   carom into, cascade, casualty, catabasis, cataclysm, cataract,
   catastrophe, cave, cave-in, chain smoking, charge in,
   chronic alcoholism, chute, clap, clash, cocainism, collapse,
   collide, collision, comb, come between, come down,
   come into collision, comedown, concuss, concussion,
   confront each other, conquering, conquest, contretemps, crack,
   crack up, crack-up, crash in, crash into, crash the gates, craving,
   crawl in, creep in, crescendo, cropper, crowd in, crump, crunch,
   crush, cut in, cut to pieces, dash, dash into, deafen, deathblow,
   debacle, deceleration, declension, declination, decline,
   decline and fall, declining market, decrescendo, defeat, deflation,
   defluxion, demolish, dependence, descend, descending, descension,
   descent, destruction, diffuse, diminuendo, din, dip down,
   dipsomania, disaster, disperse, disrupt, dive, doss down, down,
   downbend, downcome, downcurve, downfall, downflow, downgrade,
   downpour, downrush, downtrend, downturn, downward trend, drive,
   drop, drop down, drop off, dropping, drubbing, drug addiction,
   drug culture, drug dependence, dwindling, ebb, ebb and flow,
   edge in, elbow in, encounter, encroach, entrench, explode,
   explosion, fail, failure, fall, fall dead, fall down, fall flat,
   fall foul of, fall in, fall off, fall short, fall stillborn,
   fall through, falling, fill the air, fission, flap, flop, foist in,
   fold, fold up, force, foul, fragment, go bankrupt, go broke,
   go down, go downhill, go into receivership, go to pot, go to smash,
   go under, go up, gravitate, gravitation, grief, grind, habituation,
   hammering, heave, hiding, hit, hit against, hit the hay,
   hit the sack, horn in, hurt, hurtle, ill hap, impact, impinge,
   impingement, impose, impose on, impose upon, inclination,
   infiltrate, infringe, insinuate, insolvency, insufficient funds,
   interfere, interlope, interpose, intervene, intrude, invade,
   irrupt, jar, jolt, kip down, kited check, knock, knock against,
   lambasting, lapse, lathering, licking, lift, lose altitude,
   make mincemeat of, mastery, mauling, meet, meeting, mince,
   misadventure, mischance, misfortune, mishap, nasty blow, near-miss,
   nicotine addiction, nose dive, obtrude, off market, onslaught,
   overcoming, overdraft, overdrawn account, overthrow, overturn,
   parachute, peak, peal, percuss, percussion, physical dependence,
   pileup, pitch, plummet, plummeting, plunge, popple, pounce,
   pour down, pratfall, precipitate, press in,
   psychological dependence, pulverize, push in, put on, put upon,
   quietus, rain, ramming, rap, rapids, rattle the windows,
   receivership, remission, rend the air, rend the ears, report,
   resound, retreat, retreating market, ring, rise, rise and fall,
   rock the sky, roll, ruin, run, run into, rush in, sack out,
   sack up, sag, sagging market, scatter, scend, send, shatter,
   shipwreck, shiver, shock, shut down, sideswipe, slam, slam into,
   slap, slat, sledgehammering, slink in, slip in, slowdown, slump,
   smack, smack into, smash, smash in, smash into, smash up, smash-up,
   smashing, smashup, sneak in, soft market, splat, splinter,
   split the eardrums, split the ears, squash, squeeze in, squish,
   staggering blow, startle the echoes, steal in, stoop, storm in,
   strike, strike against, stumble, stun, subdual, subduing,
   subjugation, subsidence, surge, swap, swell, swoop, tailspin, tap,
   thrashing, throng in, thrust in, thrusting, thunder, thwack,
   tolerance, topple, toss, total loss, tragedy, trench,
   trend downward, trespass, trimming, trouncing, tumble, turn in,
   undoing, undulate, vanquishment, wane, washout, waterfall, wave,
   whack, wham, whap, whipping, whomp, whop, withdrawal sickness,
   withdrawal symptoms, work in, worm in, wrack, wreck

[7] : Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001)

crash 1. n. a sudden, usually drastic failure. most often said of the
   system q.v., sense 1, esp. of magnetic disk drives the term
   originally described what happens when the air gap of a hard disk
   collapses. "three lusers lost their files in last night's disk
   crash." a disk crash that involves the read/write heads dropping onto
   the surface of the disks and scraping off the oxide may also be referred
   to as a `head crash', whereas the term `system crash' usually, though
   not always, implies that the operating system or other software was at
   fault. 2. v. to fail suddenly. "has the system just crashed?" "something
   crashed the os" see down. also used transitively to indicate the
   cause of the crash usually a person or a program, or both. "those
   idiots playing spacewar crashed the system." 3. vi. sometimes said of
   people hitting the sack after a long hacking run; see gronk out.


see also:
system luser down spacewar hacking run gronk out 

[8] : The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)

crash
     
        1. a sudden, usually drastic failure.  most often said of the
        system, especially of magnetic disk drives the term
        originally described what happened when the air gap of a hard
        disk collapses.  "three lusers lost their files in last
        night's disk crash."  a disk crash that involves the
        read/write heads dropping onto the surface of the disks and
        scraping off the oxide may also be referred to as a "head
        crash", whereas the term "system crash" usually, though not
        always, implies that the operating system or other software
        was at fault.
     
        2. to fail suddenly.  "has the system just crashed?"
        "something crashed the os" see down.  also used
        transitively to indicate the cause of the crash usually a
        person or a program, or both.  "those idiots playing
        spacewar crashed the system."
     
        jargon file
     
        1994-12-01
     
     
see also:
system lusers down spacewar jargon file 

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