Word Meanings - CRASH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CRASH)

• Collision
• Encounter
• conflict
• crash
• opposition
• impact
• concussion
• clash
• Percussion
• shock
• encounter

Related words: (words related to CRASH)

• CLASH
  1. To make a noise by striking against something; to dash noisily together. 2. To meet in opposition; to act in a contrary direction; to come onto collision; to interfere. However some of his interests might clash with those of the chief adjacent
• ENCOUNTERER
  One who encounters; an opponent; an antagonist. Atterbury.
• OPPOSITIONIST
  One who belongs to the opposition party. Praed.
• SHOCKDOG
  See 1
• CONCUSSION
  A condition of lowered functional activity, without visible structural change, produced in an organ by a shock, as by fall or blow; as, a concussion of the brain. (more info) 1. A shaking or agitation; a shock; caused by the collision
• COLLISION
  1. The act of striking together; a striking together, as of two hard bodies; a violent meeting, as of railroad trains; a clashing. 2. A state of opposition; antagonism; interference. The collision of contrary false principles. Bp. Warburton.
• IMPACT
  To drive close; to press firmly together: to wedge into a place. Woodward.
• PERCUSSION
  The act of tapping or striking the surface of the body in order to learn the condition of the parts beneath by the sound emitted or the sensation imparted to the fingers. Percussion is said to be immediate if the blow is directly upon the body;
• CONFLICTIVE
  Tending to conflict; conflicting. Sir W. Hamilton.
• SHOCK-HEADED
  Having a thick and bushy head of hair.
• SHOCK
  A lot consisting of sixty pieces; -- a term applied in some Baltic ports to loose goods. (more info) quantity, threescore, MHG. schoc, Sw. skok, and also G. hocke a heap 1. A pile or assemblage of sheaves of grain, as wheat, rye, or the like, set
• CRASH
  To break in pieces violently; to dash together with noise and violence. He shakt his head, and crasht his teeth for ire. Fairfax.
• CLASH GEAR
  A change-speed gear in which the gears are changed by sliding endwise.
• OPPOSITION
  The situation of a heavenly body with respect to another when in the part of the heavens directly opposite to it; especially, the position of a planet or satellite when its longitude differs from that of the sun 180º; -- signified by the symbol
• ENCOUNTER
  To come against face to face; to meet; to confront, either by chance, suddenly, or deliberately; especially, to meet in opposition or with hostile intent; to engage in conflict with; to oppose; to struggle with; as, to encounter a friend
• SHOCKING
  Causing to shake or tremble, as by a blow; especially, causing to recoil with horror or disgust; extremely offensive or disgusting. The grossest and most shocking villainies. Secker. -- Shock"ing*ly, adv. -- Shock"ing*ness, n.
• CONFLICTING
  Being in conflict or collision, or in opposition; contending; contradictory; incompatible; contrary; opposing. Torn with sundry conflicting passions. Bp. Hurd.
• CLASHINGLY
  With clashing.
• CONFLICT
  flictum, to strike together, to fight: cf. F. conflit, formerly also 1. A striking or dashing together; violent collision; as, a conflict of elements or waves. 2. A strife for the mastery; hostile contest; battle; struggle; fighting. As soon as
• CRASHING
  The noise of many things falling and breaking at once. There shall be . . . a great crashing from the hills. Zeph. i. 10.
• REPERCUSSION
  Rapid reiteration of the same sound. (more info) 1. The act of driving back, or the state of being driven back; reflection; reverberation; as, the repercussion of sound. Ever echoing back in endless repercussion. Hare.
• EARTHSHOCK
  An earthquake.