From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Crash \Crash\ (kr[a^]sh), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Crashed}
(kr[a^]sht); p. pr. & vb. n. {Crashing}.] [OE. crashen, the
same word as crasen to break, E. craze. See {Craze}.]
To break in pieces violently; to dash together with noise and
violence. [R.]
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He shakt his head, and crasht his teeth for ire.
--Fairfax.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Crash \Crash\, v. i.
1. To make a loud, clattering sound, as of many things
falling and breaking at once; to break in pieces with a
harsh noise.
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Roofs were blazing and walls crashing in every part
of the city. --Macaulay.
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2. To break with violence and noise; as, the chimney in
falling crashed through the roof.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Crash \Crash\, n.
1. A loud, sudden, confused sound, as of many things falling
and breaking at once.
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The wreck of matter and the crash of worlds.
--Addison.
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2. Ruin; failure; sudden breaking down, as of a business
house or a commercial enterprise; as, the stock market
crash of 1929.
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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. --Wall street
Journal,
October 28,
1977.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Crash \Crash\, n. [L. crassus coarse. See {Crass}.]
Coarse, heavy, narrow linen cloth, used esp. for towels.
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From German-English FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3.3 [fd-deu-eng]:
Crash /krɛʃ/
crash
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