How to pronounce “crash”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• A sudden, intense, loud sound, as made for example by cymbals.
• An automobile, airplane, or other vehicle accident.
• (computing) A malfunction of computer software or hardware which causes it to shut down or become partially or totally inoperable.
• (finance) A sudden large decline of business or the prices of stocks (especially one that causes additional failures).
• (informal) A comedown from a drug.
• (collective) A group of rhinoceroses.
• (ecology) A sudden decline in any living form's population levels, often leading to extinction.
• [Adjective]
• Quick, fast, intensive, impromptu.
• [Verb]
• (intransitive) To collide with something destructively; to fall or come down violently.
• (transitive) To cause something to collide with something else, especially when this results in damage.
• (transitive) To hit or strike with force.
• To make a sudden loud noise.
• (ambitransitive, slang) Ellipsis of gatecrash. [from 1920s]
• (transitive, management) To accelerate a project or a task or its schedule by devoting more resources to it.
• (intransitive, slang) To make or experience informal temporary living arrangements, especially overnight.
• (transitive, slang) To give, as a favor.
• (intransitive, slang) To lie down for a long rest, sleep or nap, as from tiredness or exhaustion. [from 1940s]
• (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.
• (computing, hardware, software, intransitive) To terminate or halt execution due to an exception.
• (computing, hardware, software, transitive) To cause an exception that terminates or halts execution.
• To take a sudden and severe turn for the worse; to rapidly and catastrophically deteriorate.
• (transitive, Scotland, education) To take a subject at higher level without having previously studied it.

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