crash·ing
(krăsh́ĭng)
adjective
- Total; absolute: a crashing bore.
crash
1 (krăsh)
[Middle English crasschenprobably akin to crasen, to shatter; see craze.]
verb: crashed, crash·ing, crash·es.
intransitive verb
- To break violently or noisily; smash.
- To undergo sudden damage or destruction on impact: Their car crashed into a guardrail. The airplane crashed over the ocean.
- 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
- To find temporary lodging or shelter, as for the night.
- To go to sleep.
transitive verb
- To cause to crash.
- To dash to pieces; smash.
- Informal To join or enter (a party, for example) without invitation.
noun
- A sudden loud noise, as of an object breaking.
- A smashing to pieces.
- A collision, as between two automobiles. See synonyms at collision
- A sudden severe downturn: a market crash; a population crash.
- Computer Science
- 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.
- A sudden failure of a program or operating system, usually without serious consequences.
- Slang Mental depression after drug-taking.
adjective
Informal- Of or characterized by an intensive effort to produce or accomplish: a crash course on income-tax preparation; a crash diet.
idioms
- crash and burn
- To fail utterly. To fall asleep from exhaustion. To wipe out, as in skateboarding.
derivatives
- crash́er
- noun
