crash

  1. Noun.  An automobile, airplane, or other vehicle accident.
  2. Noun.  A computer malfunction that is caused by faulty software, and makes the system either partially or totally inoperable.
  3. Noun.  A loud sound as made for example by cymbals.
  4. Noun.  A sudden large decline of business or the prices of stocks (especially one that causes additional failures).
  5. Noun.  ; ''the stock market ''crash'''''.
  6. Noun.  A comedown of a drug.
  7. Noun.  A group of rhinoceroses.
  8. Adjective.  quick, fast, intensive.
  9. Verb.  (transitive) To collide with something destructively, fall or come down violently.
  10. Verb.  (transitive) To severely damage or destroy something by causing it to collide with something else.
  11. Verb.  (transitive, slang) (via gatecrash) To attend a social event without invitation.
  12. Verb.  (transitive, management) To accelerate a project or a task or its schedule by devoting more resources to it.
  13. Verb.  (intransitive) To make or experience informal temporary living arrangements.
  14. Verb.  (computing, software) To terminate extraordinarily.
  15. Verb.  (computing, software) To cause to terminate extraordinarily.
  16. Verb.  (intransitive) To experience a period of depression and/or lethargy after a period of euphoria, as after the euphoric effect of a psychotropic drug has dissipated.
  17. Noun.  (context, fibre) Plain linen.

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