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crashing

verbnounadjectivecommon in dialogue

  • //ˈkɹæʃɪŋ//

The sound or action of something that crashes.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of crashpresent participle and gerund of crash

noun

  1. 1

    The sound or action of something that crashes.

    the ceaseless crashings of waves on the beach

adjective

  1. 1

    Severe; drastic.

    Advances were brought to crashing halts, and whole areas became impassable.

    That the debut of the play on 20 April 1842 was a crashing failure is apparent from a letter from Charles […]

Forms

plural
crashings
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).