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Crash

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 1 of 4

Part of speech: noun (n.)

1. A loud, sudden, confused sound, as of manu things falling and breaking at once. The wreck of matter and the crash of worlds. Addison.

2. Ruin; failure; sudden breaking down, as of a business house or a commercial enterprise.

Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 2 of 4

Part of speech: noun (n.)

Coarse, heavy, narrow linen cloth, used esp. for towels.

Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 3 of 4

Part of speech: verb (v.)

To break in pieces violently; to dash together with noise and violence. [R.] He shakt his head, and crasht his teeth for ire. Fairfax.

Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 4 of 4

Part of speech: verb (v.)

1. To make a loud, clattering sound, as of many things falling and breaking at once; to break in pieces with a harsh noise. Roofs were blazing and walls crashing in every part of the city. Macualay.

2. To break with violence and noise; as, the chimney in falling crashed through the roof.

Noah Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Structured JSON vendored from sktzofrenic/webster1828 at commit 5a58d9e0191eefaa51affbc1bb1b8bc5782ba6c0. The upstream README identifies the dictionary text as public domain and the project license as MIT.

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