crash

crash is a 5-letter English word with 24 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To break in pieces violently; to dash together with noise and violence. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 10 · 24 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. To break in pieces violently; to dash together with noise and violence.
2. intransitive verb. To make a loud, clattering sound, as of many things falling and breaking at once; to break in pieces with a harsh noise.
3. intransitive verb. To break with violence and noise; as, the chimney in falling crashed through the roof.
4. noun. A loud, sudden, confused sound, as of many things falling and breaking at once.
5. noun. Ruin; failure; sudden breaking down, as of a business house or a commercial enterprise.
6. noun. Coarse, heavy, narrow linen cloth, used esp. for towels.
7. noun. the act of colliding with something

   "his crash through the window"

   "the fullback's smash into the defensive line"

   Synonyms: smash

8. noun. a serious accident (usually involving one or more vehicles)

   "they are still investigating the crash of the TWA plane"

   Synonyms: wreck

9. noun. a loud resonant repeating noise

   "he could hear the clang of distant bells"

   Synonyms: clang, clangor, clangoring, clangour, clank, clash

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

    Synonyms: collapse

11. noun. (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"

12. verb. sleep in a convenient place

    "You can crash here, though it's not very comfortable"

    Synonyms: doss

13. verb. stop operating

    "My computer crashed last night"

    "The system goes down at least once a week"

14. verb. undergo a sudden and severe downturn

    "the economy crashed"

    "will the stock market crash again?"

15. verb. hurl or thrust violently

    "He dashed the plate against the wall"

    "Waves were dashing against the rock"

    Synonyms: dash

16. verb. undergo damage or destruction on impact

    "the plane crashed into the ocean"

    "The car crashed into the lamp post"

    Synonyms: ram

17. verb. break violently or noisily; smash
18. verb. cause to crash

    "The terrorists crashed the plane into the palace"

    "Mother crashed the motorbike into the lamppost"

19. verb. fall or come down violently

    "The branch crashed down on my car"

    "The plane crashed in the sea"

20. verb. enter uninvited; informal

    "let's crash the party!"

21. verb. move violently as through a barrier

    "The terrorists crashed the gate"

22. verb. move with, or as if with, a crashing noise

    "The car crashed through the glass door"

23. verb. make a sudden loud sound

    "the waves crashed on the shore and kept us awake all night"

24. verb. occupy, usually uninvited

    "My son's friends crashed our house last weekend"

Synonyms

smash, wreck, clang, clangor, clangoring, clangour, clank, clash, collapse, doss, dash, ram

Anagrams

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Common word forms

crashed, crasher, crashes, crashing

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