crash

crash¹ [kræʃ] v

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1¦(car/plane etc)¦

2¦(hit somebody/something hard)¦

3¦(loud noise)¦

4¦(computer)¦

5¦(financial)¦

6¦(sport)¦

7¦(sleep)¦

8¦(party)¦

9 crashing bore

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[Date: 1300-1400; Origin: Probably from the sound]

1.) ¦(CAR/PLANE ETC)¦ [I and T]

to have an accident in a car, plane etc by violently hitting something else

→↑collide

▪ The jet crashed after take-off.

crash into/onto etc

▪ The plane crashed into a mountain.

crash a car/bus/plane etc

▪ He was drunk when he crashed the car.

2.) ¦(HIT SOMEBODY/SOMETHING HARD)¦ [I,T always + adverb/preposition]

to hit something or someone extremely hard while moving, in a way that causes a lot of damage or makes a lot of noise

crash into/through etc

▪ A brick crashed through the window.

▪ We watched the waves crashing against the rocks.

▪ The plates went crashing to the ground.

▪ A large branch came crashing down .

3.) ¦(LOUD NOISE)¦

to make a sudden loud noise

▪ Thunder crashed and boomed outside.

4.) ¦(COMPUTER)¦ [I and T]

if a computer crashes, or if you crash the computer, it suddenly stops working

▪ The system crashed and I lost three hours' worth of work.

5.) ¦(FINANCIAL)¦ [I]

if a ↑stock market or ↑shares crash, they suddenly lose a lot of value

6.) ¦(SPORT)¦ [I]

[i]BrE to lose very badly in a sports event

▪ Liverpool crashed to their worst defeat of the season.

7.) ¦(SLEEP)¦

[i]spoken

a) to stay at someone's house for the night

▪ Can I crash at your place on Saturday night?

b) also crash out

to go to bed, or go to sleep very quickly, because you are very tired

▪ I crashed out on the sofa this afternoon.

8.) ¦(PARTY)¦ [T] informal

to go to a party that you have not been invited to

▪ We crashed Joe's party yesterday.

9.) crashing bore

BrE old-fashioned someone who is very boring

crash ²

crash² S3 n

1.) an accident in which a vehicle violently hits something else

→↑collision

plane/car etc crash

▪ 41 people were killed in the plane crash.

▪ the Clapham rail crash

▪ a fatal crash

▪ a head-on crash between two trains

▪ a crash victim

2.) a sudden loud noise made by something falling, breaking etc

▪ I heard a loud crash .

with a crash

▪ The branch came down with a crash.

crash of

▪ a crash of thunder

3.) an occasion when a computer or computer system suddenly stops working

4.) an occasion on which the ↑stocks and ↑shares in a ↑stock market suddenly lose a lot of value

▪ the stock market crash of October 1987