Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb crash
13 senses of crash
Sense 1
crash -- (fall or come down violently; "The branch crashed down on my car"; "The plane crashed in the sea")
=> descend, fall, go down, come down -- (move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way; "The temperature is going down"; "The barometer is falling"; "The curtain fell on the diva"; "Her hand went up and then fell again")
Sense 2
crash -- (move with, or as if with, a crashing noise; "The car crashed through the glass door")
=> move -- (move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion; "He moved his hand slightly to the right")
Sense 3
crash, ram -- (undergo damage or destruction on impact; "the plane crashed into the ocean"; "The car crashed into the lamp post")
=> collide, clash -- (crash together with violent impact; "The cars collided"; "Two meteors clashed")
Sense 4
crash -- (move violently as through a barrier; "The terrorists crashed the gate")
=> pass, go through, go across -- (go across or through; "We passed the point where the police car had parked"; "A terrible thought went through his mind")
Sense 5
crash, break up, break apart -- (break violently or noisily; smash;)
=> disintegrate -- (break into parts or components or lose cohesion or unity; "The material disintegrated"; "the group disintegrated after the leader died")
Sense 6
crash -- (occupy, usually uninvited; "My son's friends crashed our house last weekend")
=> occupy, reside, lodge in -- (live (in a certain place); "She resides in Princeton"; "he occupies two rooms on the top floor")
Sense 7
crash -- (make a sudden loud sound; "the waves crashed on the shore and kept us awake all night")
=> sound, go -- (make a certain noise or sound; "She went `Mmmmm'"; "The gun went `bang'")
Sense 8
barge in, crash, gate-crash -- (enter uninvited; informal; "let's crash the party!")
=> intrude, irrupt -- (enter uninvited; "They intruded on our dinner party"; "She irrupted into our sitting room")
Sense 9
crash -- (cause to crash; "The terrorists crashed the plane into the palace"; "Mother crashed the motorbike into the lamppost")
=> collide -- (cause to collide; "The physicists collided the particles")
Sense 10
crash, dash -- (hurl or thrust violently; "He dashed the plate against the wall"; "Waves were dashing against the rock")
=> hurl, hurtle, cast -- (throw forcefully)
Sense 11
crash -- (undergo a sudden and severe downturn; "the economy crashed"; "will the stock market crash again?")
=> change -- (undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature; "She changed completely as she grew older"; "The weather changed last night")
Sense 12
crash, go down -- (stop operating; "My computer crashed last night"; "The system goes down at least once a week")
=> fail, go bad, give way, die, give out, conk out, go, break, break down -- (stop operating or functioning; "The engine finally went"; "The car died on the road"; "The bus we travelled in broke down on the way to town"; "The coffee maker broke"; "The engine failed on the way to town"; "her eyesight went after the accident")
Sense 13
doss, doss down, crash -- (sleep in a convenient place; "You can crash here, though it's not very comfortable")
=> bed down, bunk down -- (go to bed; "We bedded down at midnight")
Antonyms of adj crashing
1 sense of crashing
Sense 1
bally (prenominal), blinking (prenominal), bloody (prenominal), blooming (prenominal), crashing (prenominal), flaming (prenominal), fucking (prenominal) -- (informal intensifiers; "what a bally (or blinking) nuisance"; "a bloody fool"; "a crashing bore"; "you flaming idiot")
INDIRECT (VIA unmitigated) -> mitigated -- (made less severe or intense; "he gladly accepted the mitigated penalty")
Similarity of adj crashing
1 sense of crashing
Sense 1
bally (prenominal), blinking (prenominal), bloody (prenominal), blooming (prenominal), crashing (prenominal), flaming (prenominal), fucking (prenominal) -- (informal intensifiers; "what a bally (or blinking) nuisance"; "a bloody fool"; "a crashing bore"; "you flaming idiot")
=> unmitigated (vs. mitigated) -- (not diminished or moderated in intensity or severity; sometimes used as an intensifier; "unmitigated suffering"; "an unmitigated horror"; "an unmitigated lie")