(v. t. ) To break in pieces violently; to dash together with noise and violence.
(v. i.) To make a loud, clattering sound, as of many things falling and breaking at once; to break in pieces with a harsh noise.
(v. i.) To break with violence and noise; as, the chimney in falling crashed through the roof.
(n.) A loud, sudden, confused sound, as of many things falling and breaking at once.
(n.) Ruin; failure; sudden breaking down, as of a business house or a commercial enterprise.
(n.) Coarse, heavy, narrow linen cloth, used esp. for towels.
Example Sentences:
(1) That has driven whole river systems to a complete population crash,” said Darren Tansley, a wildlife officer with Essex Wildlife Trust.
(2) Some 10 fire engines remained on the scene after rushing there to extinguish the many blazes caused by the crash.
(3) Harry was 12 years old when Diana, Princess of Wales, was killed in a car crash but said it was not until his late 20s, after two years of “total chaos”, that he processed the grief.
(4) The Calspan 3-D Computer Simulator of a Motor Vehicle Crash Victim was used to provide estimates of the head and neck response to be expected for the very specific deceleration profiles simulated.
(5) Death, helicopter crashes and tears: nurses' career-defining moments Read more Of course, we still continue to accept and treat patients as we always have.
(6) Sometimes it can seem as if the history of the City is the history of its crises and disasters, from the banking crisis of 1825 (which saw undercapitalised banks collapse – perhaps the closest historic parallel to the contemporary credit crunch), through the Spanish panic of 1835, the railway bust of 1837, the crash of Overend Gurney, the Kaffir boom, the Westralian boom, the Marconi scandal, and so on and on – a theme with endless variations.
(7) Israel has complained in recent weeks of an increase in stone throwing and molotov cocktail attacks on West Bank roads and in areas adjoining mainly Palestinian areas of Jerusalem, where an elderly motorist died after crashing his car during an alleged stoning attack.
(8) Sky News has apologised profusely after one of its presenters was shown rifling through the personal belongings of a stricken passenger at the MH17 crash site.
(9) Stephen Tolbert died in a plane crash soon after and the case was closed.
(10) Those two ideas came together with a big crash and I began to apply what I had learned about sound to the moving image.
(11) Facebook Twitter Pinterest An armoured vehicle manned by pro-Russian rebels leaves Donetsk in the direction of the MH17 crash site.
(12) The sensitivity is, now that this is official, it will make things worse.” Like Australia, Canada weathered the financial crash of 2008 well, avoiding the banking crises suffered by the US, UK and the eurozone, instead growing fast on the back of exports of abundant natural resources.
(13) An isolated colony of red squirrels at Formby , Merseyside, were decimated by an outbreak of squirrelpox in 2008 , which saw the population crash by 85% to less than 200 squirrels.
(14) Facebook Twitter Pinterest A storm driven wave crashes against the sea wall at Saltcoats.
(15) You had to let it crash over you.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest ‘Miles’s life was torture’ … Lu Spinney at home.
(16) It follows that he would not allow a biker to give evidence while wearing a crash helmet with the visor down.
(17) The eurozone's 17 finance ministers began crisis talks in Brussels on Monday night "to stop the rot" with Italian bond yields – the country's cost of borrowing – hitting a new peak of 6.69%, threatening to crash the euro system, and political leaders from virtually all countries outside Germany lining up to demand full-scale ECB intervention.
(18) When the news about the attack in Woolwich broke, by pure coincidence Ross Caputi was crashing on my sofa.
(19) In Lughaya, Hassan Barre Gas raises his hand to the sky as he describes the wave that crashed into his home on 5 November.
(20) More attention should therefore be focused on protecting infants from injury and death resulting from motor vehicle crashes.
Dude
Definition:
(n.) A kind of dandy; especially, one characterized by an ultrafashionable style of dress and other affectations.
Example Sentences:
(1) He's been the league MVP for two years in a row, he's the reigning NBA finals MVP, he led Team USA to a gold medal in last summer's Olympics, he's on this year's All-Defense first team, oh and there's that Sports Illustrated's sportsman of the year thing … OK, you get the idea, there's a lot of compelling evidence out there that suggests that the dude knows how to play basketball.
(2) @neopeo : Dude at work took 7 hours to get in to work this morning.
(3) If Kyrgios cares about his career – and sometimes he is so blase about his success, wealth and celebrity he professes to hate tennis – the hip young dude from Canberra who smirks when he should be smiling, who plainly is struggling with fame, needs to understand he is not the only clown in town.
(4) How does it stop?” And a dude in his early thirties who looks like a 6ft-3in brick wall says, “Everyone on my block did that.
(5) But it was in westerns that Peck's dour integrity showed itself best: unshaven and tough in Yellow Sky (1948); a dude learning to adapt to the west in The Big Country (1958); and obsessively after the men who raped and killed his wife in The Bravados (1958).
(6) He's 27 today, and shares his birthday with [frantic googling] Stuart Broad, Vernon Philander, the dude who played RoboCop, fellow football genius Kevin Nolan.
(7) He's a man of many names: The Walking Dude, The Ageless Stranger, He Who Walks Behind The Rows, The Man In Black, Walter O'Dim, The Dark Man.
(8) In other tweets she wrote: "I was on the balcony, dude with machine gun came up and told us to go in and locked it … we asked if they had a search warrant, they said the person who issues warrants is in building & doesn't need to issue one for himself.
(9) The comedian, who calls President Obama "dude" to his face and gets away with it , has promised nothing more than "fun" for the tens of thousands he hopes to draw to the National Mall in Washington DC.
(10) A lot of bad ‘dudes’ out there!” Taken at his infantile word, Trump literally makes no sense: having campaigned on a Muslim ban, Trump now believes he has taken all those bad dudes by surprise with the same ban.
(11) I know what you’re thinking; this Duterte dude sounds like a sophisticate on the world stage, but he isn’t the only person to have strayed near the edges of acceptable diplomatic language.
(12) "This is the first time we've been able to throw out an idea like, 'Dude, it'd be cool to have a gospel choir', and it wouldn't get shot down."
(13) 1 | The Dude ... from The Big Lebowski Facebook Twitter Pinterest Jeff Bridges as the Dude.
(14) Maybe it’s because all these dudes were not the first choice of the women of their youths […] But they can make it in tinseltown and perpetuate the desperate delusion that they are powerful.” She says she has no real hope of a comeback.
(15) American sanctions against Rosneft, which have frozen the Russian firm out of US capital markets, had not had any impact on BP, Dudely said.
(16) As I was introduced, my husband heard a dude say to his mates, “Oh, look, a chick.
(17) In a break from filming, Pratt described his character as a "roguish space dude who's socially stunted and essentially still very much a child".
(18) It’s the infectious daftness of the whole thing; the claret-hurling ultraviolence; the inability of Jessica Lange to be anything other than an absolute dude even when spouting some truly preposterous nonsense, the reset system at the end of every season – meaning each is its own standalone tale with the cast in different roles.
(19) Italy are going out in the first round, a dude has just won a tennis match at Wimbledon 70-68 in the fifth set and New Zealand are just one kick of a football away from making it through to the last 16 of the World Cup.
(20) You wanted your own person, I know this because you virtually told me Gordon, so just chill out dude, we are not going anywhere.