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noun

Crash n.

A loud, sudden, confused sound, as of many things falling and breaking at once. "The wreck of matter and the crash of worlds."

Ruin; failure; sudden breaking down, as of a business house or a commercial enterprise; as, the stock market crash of 1929. " The last week of October 1929 remains forever imprinted in the American memory. It was, of course, the week of the Great Crash, the stock market collapse that signaled the collapse of the world economy and the Great Depression of the 1930s. From an all-time high of 381 in early September 1929, the Dow Jones Industrial Average drifted down to a level of 326 on October 22, then, in a series of traumatic selling waves, to 230 in the course of the following six trading days. The stock market's drop was far from over; it continued its sickening slide for nearly three more years, reaching an ultimate low of 41 in July 1932. But it was that last week of October 1929 that burned itself into the American consciousness. After a decade of unprecedented boom and prosperity, there suddenly was panic, fear, a yawning gap in the American fabric. The party was over."

Crash n. Coarse, heavy, narrow linen cloth, used esp. for towels.

verb

Crash v. t. (past & past part. crashed; pres. part. crashing) To break in pieces violently; to dash together with noise and violence. (R.) "He shakt his head, and crasht his teeth for ire."

Crash v. i.

To make a loud, clattering sound, as of many things falling and breaking at once; to break in pieces with a harsh noise. "Roofs were blazing and walls crashing in every part of the city."

To break with violence and noise; as, the chimney in falling crashed through the roof.

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Etymology of 'Crash'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Crash" Quotes from Famous Books

... in complete confusion. He made a vain effort to recall clearly what had happened in the car. He remembered the crash, the din, the pain, the horrible clutch on his arm, the choking reek of the smoke, his frantic fear for Berenice, but all these things seemed blurred in his mind like a landscape obscured by a night-fog. Only one memory stood out clear and sharp; that ...

— The Puritans • Arlo Bates

... built out into the garden, which also covers the old well, let down the bucket, and then, taking the clean crash towel from its hook, place the basin on the bench in the sunlight, and plunge my head into the cool water. Madame regards me curiously, her arms akimbo, re-hangs the towel, ...

— Modern Prose And Poetry; For Secondary Schools - Edited With Notes, Study Helps, And Reading Lists • Various

... been blowing strongly, all the morning, and the waves were rolling in heavily. Their green tops were crested with white foam which rose high and higher, curved over as softly as a rose petal, balanced for a brief second, then fell with a crash and went flowing up the bank of the beach, circling and twisting in countless eddies that now and then crept to the very awnings and caused a stampede among their inhabitants. A dozen portly matrons sat in the sand, rocking to and fro as ...

— Phebe, Her Profession - A Sequel to Teddy: Her Book • Anna Chapin Ray

... Beast was so close. Once he thought that its mouth was watering!—but it was only the tears that had run on the lips of the Beast. He felt as a morsel! The Beast was ceasing to weep! He sang of worlds that had disappointed the gods. And all of a sudden, crash! and the staunch spear of Arrath went home behind the shoulder, and the tears and the joyful ways of the Gladsome Beast were ended and over ...

— The Book of Wonder • Edward J. M. D. Plunkett, Lord Dunsany

... had handed down for inspection a very rare and costly fossil, from the coal-measures, I think; including the matrix, it had about the size and shape of the palm of the hand. He cautioned us not to drop it. When it had reached about the middle of the audience a crash was heard. The precious thing had been dropped by a new and somewhat uncouth assistant whom we will call Dr. X. He hastily gathered up the pieces and rushed out of the room. For a few seconds Agassiz stood as if himself petrified; then, ...

— Louis Agassiz as a Teacher • Lane Cooper

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