crash
- Noun. An automobile, airplane, or other vehicle accident.
- Noun. A computer malfunction that is caused by faulty software, and makes the system either partially or totally inoperable.
- Noun. A loud sound as made for example by cymbals.
- Noun. A sudden large decline of business or the prices of stocks (especially one that causes additional failures).
- Noun. ; ''the stock market ''crash'''''.
- Noun. A comedown of a drug.
- Noun. A group of rhinoceroses.
- Adjective. quick, fast, intensive.
- Verb. (transitive) To collide with something destructively, fall or come down violently.
- Verb. (transitive) To severely damage or destroy something by causing it to collide with something else.
- Verb. (transitive, slang) (via gatecrash) To attend a social event without invitation.
- Verb. (transitive, management) To accelerate a project or a task or its schedule by devoting more resources to it.
- Verb. (intransitive) To make or experience informal temporary living arrangements.
- Verb. (computing, software) To terminate extraordinarily.
- Verb. (computing, software) To cause to terminate extraordinarily.
- 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.
- Noun. (context, fibre) Plain linen.
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