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# crash

«crash» in Mova's school dictionary: **an accident when a vehicle hits something hard** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a crash, crashes); verb (crash, crashes, crashed, crashing)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A crash is an accident when a vehicle hits something hard. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crash/#m1)

2) A crash is a sudden loud noise of something falling or breaking. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crash/#m2)

3) To crash is to hit something hard, or to fall with a loud noise. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crash/#m3)

4) When a computer crashes, it suddenly stops working. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crash/#m4)

5) To crash can mean to fall asleep very quickly because you are tired (informal). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crash/#m5)

### sense in the lessons

In road safety, seatbelts, car seats and bike helmets protect you in a crash. In science, a crash shows forces and energy: the faster something moves, the harder it hits. In stories, a crash is a sudden dramatic event. Phrases: car crash, crash into, crash helmet, crash landing, crash course (a fast short lesson), the waves crashed.

### examples

- The car crashed into a tree. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crash/#x1)
- We heard a crash from the kitchen. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crash/#x2)
- The waves crashed against the rocks. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crash/#x3)
- My computer crashed and I lost my work. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crash/#x4)
- Wear a helmet in case you crash your bike. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crash/#x5)
- The plane made a crash landing. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crash/#x6)
- After the trip I crashed on the sofa. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crash/#x7)

### note

Plural crashes, with -es. "Crash into" is used for hitting something. Do not confuse "crash" (hit hard) with "crush" (squeeze flat). In physics problems, speed and mass both make a crash more powerful.

### In the corpora

- [Plane crashes and terror attacks are on the news because they are very rare; millions of flights land safely every day.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/51-scary-news-wars-disasters-and-how-to-talk-about-them/14/)
- [In Tom and Jerry, Tom crashes around the house after Jerry and never wins.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/198-cats-as-hunters-presents-on-the-doormat-and-why-tom-never-catches-jerry/2/)
- [Birds crash into windows because they see reflected trees and sky, and stickers on the glass break up the reflection.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/216-garden-birds-robins-blackbirds-tits-and-feeders/11/)
- [The frightened old horse rears and backs, and drags the cart into the deep ditch: crash!](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/32-willows-ch2-part4-the-wreck-and-the-new-craze/0/)
- [With half a turn of the wheel it crashes through a hedge into a muddy horse-pond.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/64-willows-ch10-part4-into-the-horse-pond/6/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «crash» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crash/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.