crash in WordNet English dictionary

1. enter uninvited; informal
   "let's crash the party!"
   barge in  crash  gate-crash 
   
2. break violently or noisily; smash;
   crash  break up  break apart 
   
3. sleep in a convenient place
   "You can crash here, though it's not very comfortable"
   doss  doss down  crash 
   
4. stop operating
   "My computer crashed last night"; "The system goes down at least once a week"
   crash  go down 
   
5. undergo a sudden and severe downturn
   "the economy crashed"; "will the stock market crash again?"
   crash 
   
6. undergo damage or destruction on impact
   "the plane crashed into the ocean"; "The car crashed into the lamp post"
   crash  ram 
   
7. cause to crash
   "The terrorists crashed the plane into the palace"; "Mother crashed the motorbike into the lamppost"
   crash 
   
8. hurl or thrust violently
   "He dashed the plate against the wall"; "Waves were dashing against the rock"
   crash  dash 
   
9. move with, or as if with, a crashing noise
   "The car crashed through the glass door"
   crash 
   
10. fall or come down violently
    "The branch crashed down on my car"; "The plane crashed in the sea"
    crash 
    
11. move violently as through a barrier
    "The terrorists crashed the gate"
    crash 
    
12. make a sudden loud sound
    "the waves crashed on the shore and kept us awake all night"
    crash 
    
13. occupy, usually uninvited
    "My son's friends crashed our house last weekend"
    crash 
    

1. a loud resonant repeating noise
   "he could hear the clang of distant bells"
   clang  clangor  clangour  clangoring  clank  clash  crash 
   
2. a sudden large decline of business or the prices of stocks (especially one that causes additional failures)
   crash  collapse 
   
3. the act of colliding with something
   "his crash through the window"; "the fullback's smash into the defensive line"
   crash  smash 
   
4. a serious accident (usually involving one or more vehicles)
   "they are still investigating the crash of the TWA plane"
   crash  wreck 
   
5. (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"
   crash