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Definition: Crashing |
CrashingAdjective1. (used of persons) informal intensifiers; "what a bally (or blinking) nuisance"; "a bloody fool"; "a crashing bore"; "you flaming idiot". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "crashing" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references) |
Synonyms: CrashingSynonyms: bally(a) (adj), blinking(a) (adj), bloody(a) (adj), crashing(a) (adj), flaming(a) (adj), fucking(a) (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Crashing |
| English words defined with "crashing": bally, blinking, bloody, breaking ♦ Casey Jones, crash, cymbal ♦ flaming ♦ John Luther Jones, Jones ♦ thunder. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "crashing": bagbiter ♦ Cleanie, CRASHING CHEATS ♦ demoscene ♦ gweep ♦ off the trolley. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I don't like flying because I'm afraid of crashing into a large mountain (A Few Good Men; writing credit: Aaron Sorkin) Or is your entire world just crashing down all around you (Seinfeld; writing credit: Andreas Lenze; Bea Schmidt) No, if it were our plane, it would be crashing. (Quick Change; writing credit: Howard Franklin) There, you see now, how all your so-called power counts for absolutely nothing now, how your entire empire can come crashing down because of one little cherry (The Fifth Element; writing credit: Luc Besson) | |
Lyrics | You're gonna be crashing into stone walls again and again (You're Only Human (Second Wind); performing artist: Billy Joel) Saw the stars crashing (China Girl; performing artist: David Bowie) Your shining autumn, ocean crashing (Silver Springs; performing artist: Fleetwood Mac) The waves keep on crashing on me for some reason (Hella Good; performing artist: No Doubt) Crashing to the ground (The Great Beyond; performing artist: R.E.M.) | |
Clever | The banging and slamming and booming and crashing were something beyond belief. [On Lohengrin] (references; author: Mark Twain) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Crashing the Water Barrier (1956) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Someday our Milky Way Galaxy and the neighboring Andromeda Galaxy may come crashing together ... Credit: NASA. |  | Remains of helicopter after crashing in Lake at Palm Springs Camp Party of Walter Helm. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | Breakers crashing into rugged cliffs on the north shore of Kauai. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | USS Smith (DD-378) burning after she was hit by a crashing Japanese torpedo plane during an attack on USS Enterprise (CV-6), 26 October 1942. Photographed from USS San Juan (CL-54). Credit: NAVY. |
 | Japanese Kamikaze aircraft explodes after crashing into the carrier's flight deck amidships, during operations off the Philippines, 25 November 1944. Photographed from USS Langley (CVL-27). Credit: NAVY. |  | Scene just after the Japanese torpedo plane attack on shipping between Guadalcanal and Tulagi, 8 August 1942. USS George F. Elliott (AP-13) is afire in the left center. She had been hit by a crashing enemy aircraft. The other two smoke plumes mark the locations of planes that crashed into the water. Credit: NAVY. |
 | Japanese Navy Type 1 land attack planes ("Betty") make a torpedo attack on the Tulagi invasion force, 8 August 1942. The burning ship in the center distance is probably USS George F. Elliott (AP-13), which was hit by a crashing Japanese aircraft during this attack. Credit: NAVY. |  | Damage to the smokestack and signal bridge of USS Hornet (CV-8) after it was struck by a crashing Japanese dive bomber, during the morning of 26 October 1942. Smoke at bottom is from fires started when the plane subsequently hit the flight deck. Note ship's tripod mast, with CXAM radar antenna in top left and the flag still flying above the damaged structure. Credit: NAVY. |
 | Artwork by Bacon, published in "Deeds of Valor", Volume II, page 74, by the Perrien-Keydel Company, Detroit, 1907. It depicts the attack on CSS Albemarle by a torpedo launch commanded by Lieutenant William B. Cushing, USN, at Plymouth, North Carolina, 27 October 1864. The torpedo boat is shown crashing over Albemarle's protective log boom to deliver its torpedo against the ironclad's hull. Credit: NAVY. |  | Rocky coast with crashing surf and gulls] / [by] C.G. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Waves" by Kit Barker Commentary: "Waves crashing over the rocks." | "Sleeping Guitarist" by Philip Jackson Commentary: "I found this guitarist, i don't know that he was actually sleeping, in a roman temple in Nimes, it was tres hot on that day I don't blame him for crashing out. ." |
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 | Waves crashing and seagulls crying. | | Waves crashing and seagulls crying. |
| Car skidding uncontrollably then crashing into another car and shattering glass. | | Ocean waves crashing on the beach with seagulls singing. |
| Chipmunks knocking plates off a kitchen counter; plates crashing to the floor. | | Car skidding and crashing into something. |
| Large quantity of glass crashing and breaking. | | Cymbals crashing. |
| Glass crashing. | ||
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | There were shouts, the sound of running feet, crashing through brush |
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Dennis Miller | America's ripe with slobs who won't drink any wine unless it's so sweet, every time they take a sip they look up to see if the Kool-aid man is crashing through the wall. |
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| "Crashing" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 90.57% of the time. "Crashing" is used about 476 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 90.57% | 432 | 13,298 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 5.45% | 26 | 68,323 |
| Noun (singular) | 3.98% | 19 | 80,337 |
| Total | 100.00% | 476 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "crashing": crashing bore ♦ crashing in. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "crashing": gate-crashing. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "crashing"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | tip fort i mërzitshëm (crashing bore). (various references) | |
Arabic | بتطفل (barging in, crashing in, obtrusively). (various references) | |
Chinese | 碰撞 (Bumped, Bumping, Clash, Collide, Collision, Crashed). (various references) | |
Czech | suchý patron, naprostý otrava. (various references) | |
German | zerbrechend (flawing), krachend (cracking). (various references) | |
Hungarian | nagyon unalmas alak (crashing bore). (various references) | |
Indonesian | empasan (violent crashing). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 墜落 (falling). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ついらく (falling). (various references) | |
Korean | 부숨 (cracking). (various references) | |
Manx | brishey stiagh (beat in, break in, burgle, burst in, burst open, encroach, encroachment, gate crashing, intrude, intrusion, stave in). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ashingcray.(various references) | |
Russian | невыносимый (impossible, insufferable, insupportable, intolerable, unbearable, unendurable), исключительный; потрясающий . (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | fragor, fragosus. (various references) |
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| Language | Date | Source | Zephaniah Chapter 1, Verse 10 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kai estai en ekeinh th hmera legei kurioV fwnh kraughV apo pulhV apokentountwn kai ololugmoV apo thV deuteraV kai suntrimmoV megaV apo twn bounwn |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Et erit in die illa dicit Dominus vox clamoris a porta Piscium et ululatus a secunda et contritio magna a collibus |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And ther shal be in that day, saith the Lord, a voys of crye fro the yate of fishis, and youlynge fro the secounde, or that streete of Jerusalem, and grete contricioun fro litil hillis. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD, that there shall be the noise of a cry from the fish gate, and an howling from the second, and a great crashing from the hills. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD, that there shall be the noise of a cry from the fish-gate, and a howling from the second, and a great crashing from the hills. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And in that day, says the Lord, there will be the sound of a cry from the fish doorway, and an outcry from the new town, and a great thundering from the hills, and cries of grief from the people of the Hollow; |
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| Language | Zephaniah Chapter 1, Verse 10 |
| Cebuano | Ug niadtong adlawa, nagaingon si Jehova, adunay tingog sa usa ka singgit gikan sa ganghaan nga pangisdaan, ug dinangoy-ngoy gikan sa ikaduhang puloy-anan, ug ang dakung dinaguok sa pagkahugno gikan sa kabungtoran. |
| Croatian | "U onaj dan" - rijeè je Jahvina - "vapaj æe se podiæi od Ribljih vrata, urlici iz novog dijela grada, silna lomljavina sa brežuljaka. |
| Danish | Den Dag skal det ske, så lyder det fra HERREN: Hør Skrig fra Fiskeporten og Jamren fra den nye Bydel. fra Højene et vældigt Brag! |
| Dutch | En er zal te dien dage, spreekt de HEERE, een stem des gekrijts zijn van de Vispoort af, en een gehuil van het tweede gedeelte, en een grote breuk van de heuvelen af. |
| Finnish | Sinä päivänä, sanoo Herra, kuuluu huuto Kalaportilta ja valitus toisesta kaupunginosasta ja suuri hävitys kukkuloilta. |
| French | En ce jour-là, dit l`Éternel, Il y aura des cris à la porte des poissons, Des lamentations dans l`autre quartier de la ville, Et un grand désastre sur les collines. |
| German | Zur selben Zeit, spricht der HERR, wird sich ein lautes Geschrei erheben von dem Fischtor her und ein Geheul von dem andern Teil der Stadt und ein großer Jammer von den Hügeln. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | "Pada hari itu," demikian kata TUHAN, "akan terdengar tangisan di Gerbang Ikan. Suara ratapan akan terdengar dari perkampungan baru, dan bunyi keruntuhan hebat akan menggema dari bukit-bukit. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Maka pada hari itu juga, demikianlah firman Tuhan, akan ada bunyi penangis dari pada Pintu Ikan, dan peraung dari pertengahan negeri dan teriak pembunuhan besar dari sebelah bukit. |
| Italian | In quel giorno - parola del Signore - grida d'aiuto verranno dalla Porta dei pesci, ululati dal quartiere nuovo e grande fragore dai colli. |
| Maori | A taua ra, e ai ta Ihowa, ka karanga te reo i te kuwaha ika, he aue hoki i te wahi tuarua, a he nui te pakaru i nga pukepuke. |
| Norwegian | På den dag, sier Herren, skal det lyde skrik fra Fiskeporten og hyl fra stadens andre del og stort brak fra haugene. |
| Portuguese | E naquele dia, diz o Senhor, far-se-á ouvur uma voz de clamor desde a porta dos peixes, e um uivo desde a segunda parte, e grande estrépito desde os outeiros. |
| Rumanian | Kn ziua aceea, zice Domnul, se vor auzi strigqte de jale la poarta pewtilor, urlete kn cealaltq mahala a cetqyii, wi un mare prqpqd de dealuri. |
| Spanish | En aquel día habrá voz de clamor en la puerta del Pescado, gemido en el Segundo Barrio y grande quebranto en las colinas, dice Jehovah. |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "crashing": crashingly. (additional references) | |
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"Crashing" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Chashni, Chashnik, crashingiy, crashings, crasking, crassing, creching, crshing, crushings, Krathong, rashing. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "crashing" (pronounced kra"shing) |
| 5 | -r a" sh i ng | thrashing, trashing. |
| 4 | -a" sh i ng | bashing, cashing, clashing, dashing, flashing, gnashing, hashing, lashing, rehashing, slashing, smashing, splashing, stashing. |
| 3 | -sh i ng | anguishing, accomplishing, abolishing, admonishing, ambushing, astonishing, banishing, blushing, brainwashing, brandishing, brushing, crushing, demolishing, diminishing, dishing, distinguishing, embellishing, establishing, extinguishing, finishing, fishing, flourishing, flushing, furbishing, furnishing, gushing, languishing, lavishing, meshing, nourishing, onrushing, overfishing, photofinishing, polishing, publishing, punishing, pushing, quashing, ravishing, reestablishing, refinishing, refreshing, refurbishing, relinquishing, relishing, replenishing, rushing, skirmishing, sloshing, squashing, tarnishing, unleashing, vanishing, washing, wishing. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: archings, chagrins. | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-g-h-i-n-r-s" | |
-1 letter: arching, cashing, chagrin, charing, chasing, garnish, racings, sacring, scaring, scraigh, sharing. | |
-2 letters: aching, arcing, arshin, ashing, cairns, caring, casing, chains, chairs, changs, chinas, cigars, garish, grains, grinch, haring, inarch, rachis, racing, rasing, shairn. | |
-3 letters: acing, airns, cains, cairn, carns, chain, chair, chang, chars, chias, china, chins, cigar, crags, crash, gains, garni, girns, girsh. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-g-h-i-n-r-s" | |
+1 letter: scarphing, searching, starching. | |
+2 letters: archaising, cashiering, crashingly, gynarchies, purchasing, scraiching, scraighing, scratching. | |
+3 letters: charmingest, crawfishing, discharging, franchising, graphicness, latchstring, mischarging, researching, searchingly, surcharging. | |
+4 letters: cheeseparing, cliffhangers, haircuttings, interchanges, latchstrings, repurchasing, roughcasting, scenographic, scintigraphy, scrimshawing, stenographic, undischarged. | |
+5 letters: archegoniates, benchmarkings, cheeseparings, childbearings, clearinghouse, crosshatching, enfranchising, flowchartings, graphicnesses, histaminergic, iconographers, iconographies, interchangers, merchandising, orchestrating, prepurchasing, saccharifying, scenographies, scintigraphic, sharecropping, shortchanging, supercharging. | |
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