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murskaantua
An automobile, airplane, or other vehicle accident.
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She broke two bones in her body in a car crash.
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Nobody survived the plane crash
A computer malfunction that is caused by faulty software, and makes the system either partially or totally inoperable.
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My computer had a crash so I had to reboot it.
A loud sound as made for example by cymbals.
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The piece ended in a crescendo, building up to a crash of cymbals.
A sudden large decline of business or the prices of stocks (especially one that causes additional failures)
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the stock market crash'''''
A comedown of a drug.
A group of rhinoceroses.
(post) Patrick F. McManus, “Nincompoopery and Other Group Terms”, in The Grasshopper Trap, Henry Holt and Company, ISBN 0-8050-0111-5, page 103,
- One of my favorites among the terms of groups of creatures is a crash of rhinoceros. I can imagine an African guide saying to his client, “Shoot, dammit, shoot! Here comes the whole bloody crash of rhinoceros!”
- … Personally, I think I’d just as soon come across a crash of rhinoceros as a knot of toad.
1998, E. Melanie Watt, Black Rhinos, page 19
- The largest group of black rhinos reported was made up of 13 individuals. A group of rhinos is called a crash.
1999, Edward Osborne Wilson, The Diversity of Life, page 126
- Out in the water a crash of rhinoceros-like animals browse belly deep through a bed of aquatic plants.
2003, Claude Herve-Bazin, Judith Farr Kenya and Tanzania, page 23
- The crash of rhinoceros at Tsavo now numbers almost 200.
dysphoria
quick, fast, intensive
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crash course
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crash diet
puhekieltä To collide with something destructively, fall or come down violently.
puhekieltä To severely damage or destroy something by causing it to collide with something else.
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Im sorry for crashing the bike into a wall. I'll pay for repairs.''
puhekieltä (via gatecrash) To attend a social event without invitation.
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We werent invited to the party so we decided to crash it.''
puhekieltä To accelerate a project or a task or its schedule by devoting more resources to it.
(quote-book)
puhekieltä To make or experience informal temporary living arrangements.
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Hey dude, can I crash at your pad?
To give, as a favor.
(slang) To lie down for a long rest, sleep or nap, as from tiredness or exhaustion.
puhekieltä To terminate extraordinary extraordinarily.
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If the system crashes again, well have it fixed in the computer shop.''
puhekieltä To cause to terminate extraordinarily.
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Double-clicking this icon crashes the desktop.
puhekieltä To experience a period of depression and/or lethargy after a period of euphoria, as after the euphoric effect of a psychotropic drug has dissipated.
puhekieltä To hit or strike with force
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puhekieltä Plain linen.
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(nl-verb form of)
puhekieltä crash landing
puhekieltä English crash
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