crash

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To break violently or noisily; smash.
2. v. To undergo sudden damage or destruction on impact: Their car crashed into a guardrail. The airplane crashed over the ocean.
3. v. To make a sudden loud noise: breakers crashing against the rocks.
4. v. To move noisily or so as to cause damage: went crashing through the woods.
5. v. To undergo a sudden severe downturn, as a market or economy.
6. v. Computer Science To stop functioning due to a crash.
7. v. Slang To undergo a period of unpleasant feeling or depression as an aftereffect of drug-taking.
8. v. Slang To find temporary lodging or shelter, as for the night.
9. v. Slang To go to sleep.
10. v. To cause to crash.
11. v. To dash to pieces; smash.
12. v. Informal To join or enter (a party, for example) without invitation.
13. n. A sudden loud noise, as of an object breaking.
14. n. A smashing to pieces.
15. n. A collision, as between two automobiles. See Synonyms at collision.
16. n. A sudden severe downturn: a market crash; a population crash.
17. n. 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.
18. n. Computer Science A sudden failure of a program or operating system, usually without serious consequences.
19. n. Slang Mental depression after drug-taking.
20. adj. Informal Of or characterized by an intensive effort to produce or accomplish: a crash course on income-tax preparation; a crash diet.
21. idiom. crash and burn Slang To fail utterly.
22. idiom. crash and burn Slang To fall asleep from exhaustion.
23. idiom. crash and burn Slang To wipe out, as in skateboarding.
24. n. A coarse, light, unevenly woven fabric of cotton or linen, used for towels and curtains.
25. n. Starched reinforced fabric used to strengthen a book binding or the spine of a bound book.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To make a loud, clattering, complex sound, as of many solid things falling and breaking together; fall down or in pieces with such a noise.
2. To cause to make a sudden, violent sound, as of breaking or dashing in pieces; dash down or break to pieces violently with a loud noise; dash or shiver with tumult and violence.
3. n. A loud, harsh, multifarious sound, as of solid or heavy things falling and breaking together: as, the crash of a falling tree or a falling house, or any similar sound.
4. n. A falling down or in pieces with a loud noise of breaking parts; hence, figuratively, destruction; breaking up; specifically, the failure of a commercial undertaking; financial ruin.
5. n. A basket filled with fragments of pottery or glass, used in a theater to simulate the sound of the breaking of windows, crockery, etc.
6. n. A strong, coarse linen fabric used for toweling, for packing, and for dancing-cloths to cover carpets.
7. n. A piece or covering of this material, as a dancing-cloth.

Wiktionary

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

GNU Webster's 1913

1. v. rare To break in pieces violently; to dash together with noise and violence.
2. v. To make a loud, clattering sound, as of many things falling and breaking at once; to break in pieces with a harsh noise.
3. v. To break with violence and noise.
4. n. A loud, sudden, confused sound, as of many things falling and breaking at once.
5. n. Ruin; failure; sudden breaking down, as of a business house or a commercial enterprise.
6. n. Coarse, heavy, narrow linen cloth, used esp. for towels.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. break violently or noisily; smash.
2. v. occupy, usually uninvited
3. n. a serious accident (usually involving one or more vehicles)
4. v. make a sudden loud sound
5. n. a loud resonant repeating noise
6. v. undergo damage or destruction on impact
7. n. the act of colliding with something
8. n. a sudden large decline of business or the prices of stocks (especially one that causes additional failures)
9. v. enter uninvited; informal.
10. n. (computer science) an event that causes a computer system to become inoperative
11. v. undergo a sudden and severe downturn
12. v. cause to crash
13. v. fall or come down violently
14. v. hurl or thrust violently
15. v. move violently as through a barrier
16. v. stop operating
17. v. move with, or as if with, a crashing noise
18. v. sleep in a convenient place