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crash - 20 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | crash |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bang; banging sound |
| Synonyms: | blast, boom, burst, clang, clap, clash, clatter, crack, din, peal, racket, slam, smash, sound, thunder, wham, clattering, smashing, thunderclap |
| Main Entry: | crash |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | collision, accidental hitting |
| Synonyms: | accident, bump, collapse, concussion, crunch, debacle, ditch, fender bender*, impact, jar, jolt, percussion, pileup, ram, shock, smash, smashup*, thud*, thump*, total*, washout*, wreck, crack-up, fender tag, rear-ender, sideswipe, splashdown, stack-up |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | crash |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | break into pieces |
| Synonyms: | crack up, crunch, dash, disintegrate, fracture, fragment, shatter, shiver, smash, splinter, total*, bang into, pile up, sideswipe, smash up, wrack up |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | crash |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | computer system failure |
| Synonyms: | abend, head crash, program crash, program error, program failure, system crash, system error |
| Main Entry: | crash |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | fall |
| Synonyms: | bite the dust*, bump, collapse, collide, ditch, dive, drop, hurtle, lurch, meet, overturn, pancake*, pitch, plunge, slip, smash, sprawl, topple, tumble, upset, washout*, crash-land, drive into, fall flat, fall headlong, fall prostrate, give way, go in*, overbalance, plough into, prang, splash down |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | abend |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | abnormal end of task |
| Synonyms: | abort, crash, loss |
| Main Entry: | catastrophe |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | calamity; unhappy conclusion |
| Synonyms: | accident, adversity, affliction, bad luck, bad news*, blow, calamity, casualty, cataclysm, contretemps, crash, culmination, curtains*, debacle, denouement, desolation, devastation, disaster, emergency, end, failure, fatality, fiasco, finale, grief, hardship, havoc, ill, infliction, misadventure, mischance, misery, misfortune, mishap, reverse, scourge, stroke, termination, tragedy, trial, trouble, upshot, waterloo*, wreck, alluvion, meltdown, the worst |
| Antonyms: | benefit, blessing, favor, good luck, happiness, miracle, success, wonder, good fortune |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | clap |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | loud hitting noise |
| Synonyms: | applause, bang, blast, boom, burst, crack, crash, pat, slam, slap, smash, strike, thrust, thunder, thwack, wallop, whack, wham, handclap, thunderclap |
| Main Entry: | collapse |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | downfall, breakdown |
| Synonyms: | bankruptcy, basket case*, cataclysm, catastrophe, crash, debacle, destruction, disintegration, disorganization, disruption, exhaustion, failure, faint, flop, prostration, smash, smashup, undoing, wreck, cave-in, conk out*, crackup*, ruination, ruining, subsidence |
| Antonyms: | increase, rise, success, build-up |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | collide |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | slam into |
| Synonyms: | bang, beat, break up, bump, clash, conflict, crash, crunch*, disagree, fragment, hit, jolt, pulverize*, scrap*, shatter, smash, splinter, strike, fender-bend, meet head-on, pile up*, plow into, sideswipe, wrack up |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | collision |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | accident |
| Synonyms: | blow, bump, butt, concussion, contact, crash, destruction, dilapidation, encounter, fender bender*, hit, impact, jar, jolt, knock, percussion, pileup*, rap, ruin, shock, slam, smash, strike, thud, thump, wreck, demolishment, head-on, sideswipe |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | comedown |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | letdown, blow |
| Synonyms: | anticlimax, blow, collapse, comeuppance, crash, decline, defeat, descent, disappointment, discomfiture, dive, down, downfall, failure, fall, flop*, humiliation, reverse, ruin, setback, undoing, wreck, cropper, deflation, demotion, pratfall |
| Antonyms: | ascent, boon, boost, fortune, promotion |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | concussion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | collision, shaking |
| Synonyms: | blast, blow, bump, clash, clout, crack, crash, hit, impact, injury, jar, jarring, jolt, jounce, punch, shock, trauma, buffeting, jolting, pounding |
| Main Entry: | debacle |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | catastrophe |
| Synonyms: | beating, breakdown, collapse, crash, defeat, devastation, disaster, dissolution, downfall, failure, fiasco, havoc, overthrow, reversal, rout, ruin, smash, smashup, washout, wreck, blue ruin, crack-up, defeasance, drubbing, licking, ruination, shellacking, trouncing, vanquishment |
| Antonyms: | boon, miracle, wonder |
| Main Entry: | din |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | loud, continuous noise |
| Synonyms: | babel, bedlam, brouhaha, buzz, clamor, clangor, clash, clatter, commotion, confusion, crash, disquiet, hoo-ha*, hubbub, hullabaloo*, hurly-burly*, jangle, music, outcry, pandemonium, percussion, racket, row, shout, sound, tintinnabulation, tumult, uproar, boisterousness, stridency, tintamarre |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | disaster |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | accident, trouble |
| Synonyms: | act of God*, adversity, affliction, bad luck, bad news*, bale, bane, blight, blow, bust, calamity, casualty, cataclysm, catastrophe, collapse, collision, crash, debacle, defeat, depression, emergency, exigency, failure, fall, fiasco, flood, flop, grief, harm, hazard, holocaust, hot water, misadventure, mischance, misfortune, mishap, reverse, rock, rough, ruin, setback, slip, stroke, tragedy, undoing, upset, washout*, woe, fell stroke, hard luck, ill luck, ruination, the worst |
| Antonyms: | blessing, good luck, miracle, prosperity, success, triumph, win, wonder, good fortune |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | dwell |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | live in |
| Synonyms: | abide, bide, bunk*, continue, crash*, establish oneself, exist, flop*, hang one's hat, hang out*, hole up*, inhabit, keep house, locate, lodge, make one's home, nest, occupy, park*, perch*, pitch tent, quarter, remain, rent, reside, rest, room, roost*, settle, sojourn, squat*, stay, stop, tarry, tenant, tent |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | encroach |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | invade another's property, business |
| Synonyms: | appropriate, arrogate, barge in*, butt in*, crash, entrench, horn in, impinge, infringe, interfere, interpose, intervene, intrude, meddle, overstep, trench, trespass, usurp, elbow in, make inroads, muscle in, put two cents in, squeeze in, stick nose into, work in, worm in |
| Antonyms: | keep off |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | impact |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | hit with force |
| Synonyms: | clash, collide, crack up, crash, crush, jolt, kick, register, smash, strike, bang into, smash up, wrack up |
| Main Entry: | infringe |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | violate |
| Synonyms: | borrow, breach, break, contravene, crash, disobey, encroach, entrench, impose, intrude, invade, lift, meddle, obtrude, offend, pirate, presume, steal, transgress, trespass, infract |
| Notes: | to impinge is to come into contact or encroach or have an impact; to infringe is to encroach on a right or privilege or to violate |
| Antonyms: | comply, discharge, obey, observe |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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