crash

1. 1.

   a loud resonant repeating noise

   “he could hear the clang of distant bells”

   Synonymsclangclangorclangourclangoringclankclash

   Broadernoise
2. 2.

   a serious accident (usually involving one or more vehicles)

   “they are still investigating the crash of the TWA plane”

   Synonymswreck

   Broaderaccident

   Narrowerprang
3. 3.

   a sudden large decline of business or the prices of stocks (especially one that causes additional failures)

   Synonymscollapse

   Broaderhappening
4. 4.

   the act of colliding with something

   “his crash through the window”

   “the fullback's smash into the defensive line”

   Synonymssmash

   Broaderhit

   Narrowerimpingement
5. 5.

   (computer science) an event that causes a computer system to become inoperative

   “the crash occurred during a thunderstorm and the system has been down ever since”

   Broadermishap

   Narrowerhead crash

   computer science

Other forms of crash

plural

crashes·

past tense

crashed·

present participle

crashing·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about crash

What does crash mean?

crash means "fall or come down violently". That is the primary sense; the word has 18 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in crash?

crash has 1 syllable: crash. In IPA it is /ˈkɹæʃ/.

What is another word for crash?

Close synonyms include ram, break up, break apart, barge in, gate-crash. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is crash a common word?

crash is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.