Noun: crash
| Singular | crash |
| Plural | crashes |
Sample Sentences
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The piece ended in a crescendo, building up to a crash of cymbals.
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After the lightning came the crash of thunder.
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She broke two bones in her body in a car crash.
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Nobody survived the plane crash.
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My computer had a crash so I had to reboot it.
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the stock market crash
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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!”
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[…] Personally, I think I’d just as soon come across a crash of rhinoceros as a knot of toad. [p. 1991, Patrick F. McManus, “Nincompoopery and Other Group Terms”, in The Grasshopper Trap, Henry Holt and Company, page 103]
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The largest group of black rhinos reported was made up of 13 individuals. A group of rhinos is called a crash. [1998, E. Melanie Watt, Black Rhinos, page 19:]
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Out in the water a crash of rhinoceros-like animals browse belly deep through a bed of aquatic plants. [1999, Edward Osborne Wilson, The Diversity of Life, page 126:]
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The crash of rhinoceros at Tsavo now numbers almost 200. [2003, Claude Herve-Bazin, Judith Farr, Kenya and Tanzania, page 23:]
Nouns inflected like crash
penniless-bench,
wintergrass,
kitchen pass,
grey fox,
grey box,
trailer hitch,
paleness,
loaded march,
Tush Push,
horribleness,
slaughteress,
chapparvovirus,
greenwax,
royal flush,
crab cactus,
geostress,
syngas,
wintercress,
ichthys,
ichthus, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English crasshen, crasschen, craschen (“to break into pieces”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps from a variant of earlier *crasken, from crasen (“to break”) + -k (formative suffix); or from earlier *craskien, *craksien, a variant of craken (“to crack, break open”) (for form development compare break, brask, brash).
Verbs referencing "crash"
Dutch Nouns
crash, French Nouns
crash, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns
krasj, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns
krasj, German Nouns
Crash, Swedish Nouns
krasch.