Hypertext Webster Gateway: "crashing"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Crashing \Crash"ing\, n.
The noise of many things falling and breaking at once.
There shall be . . . a great crashing from the hills.
--Zeph. i. 10.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Crash \Crash\ (kr?sh>), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Crashed} (kr?sht);
p. pr. & vb. n. {Crashing}.] [OE. crashen, the same word as
crasen to break, E. craze. See {Craze}.]
To break in pieces violently; to dash together with noise and
violence. [R.]
He shakt his head, and crasht his teeth for ire.
--Fairfax.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
crashing
adj : (used of persons) informal intensifiers; "what a bally (or
blinking) nuisance"; "a bloody fool"; "a crashing
bore"; "you flaming idiot" [syn: {bally(a)}, {blinking(a)},
{bloody(a)}, {crashing(a)}, {flaming(a)}, {fucking(a)}]
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