crash vs fall

crash

verb
  • To take a sudden and severe turn for the worse; to rapidly deteriorate. 

  • To hit or strike with force 

  • To make or experience informal temporary living arrangements, especially overnight. 

  • To lie down for a long rest, sleep or nap, as from tiredness or exhaustion. 

  • To give, as a favor. 

  • To accelerate a project or a task or its schedule by devoting more resources to it. 

  • To collide with something destructively, fall or come down violently. 

  • To terminate extraordinarily. 

  • To cause to terminate extraordinarily. 

  • To experience a period of depression and/or lethargy after a period of euphoria, as after the euphoric effect of a psychotropic drug has dissipated. 

  • To make a sudden loud noise. 

  • To severely damage or destroy something by causing it to collide with something else. 

noun
  • A type of rough linen. 

  • A sudden, intense, loud sound, as made for example by cymbals. 

  • A group of rhinoceroses. 

  • An automobile, airplane, or other vehicle accident. 

  • A sudden large decline of business or the prices of stocks (especially one that causes additional failures). 

  • A sudden decline in any living form's population levels, often leading to extinction. 

  • A malfunction of computer software or hardware which causes it to shut down or become partially or totally inoperable. 

  • A comedown from a drug. 

adj
  • Quick, fast, intensive, impromptu. 

fall

verb
  • To become ensnared or entrapped; to be worse off than before. 

  • To collapse; to be overthrown or defeated. 

  • To assume a look of shame or disappointment; to become or appear dejected; said of the face. 

  • To come as if by dropping down. 

  • To begin with haste, ardour, or vehemence; to rush or hurry. 

  • To occur (on a certain day of the week, date, or similar); to happen. 

  • To become. 

  • To move to a lower position under the effect of gravity. 

  • To happen; to come to pass; to chance or light (upon). 

  • To be dropped or uttered carelessly. 

  • To be brought to the ground. 

  • To die, especially in battle or by disease. 

  • To become lower (in quantity, pitch, etc.). 

  • To hang down (under the influence of gravity). 

  • To come to the ground deliberately, to prostrate oneself. 

  • To be allotted to; to arrive through chance, fate, or inheritance. 

  • To descend in character or reputation; to become degraded; to sink into vice, error, or sin. 

  • To come down, to drop or descend. 

noun
  • A reduction in quantity, pitch, etc. 

  • The action of a batsman being out. 

  • The part of the rope of a tackle to which the power is applied in hoisting (usu. plural). 

  • An old Scots unit of measure equal to six ells. 

  • The act of moving to a lower position under the effect of gravity. 

  • An instance of a wrestler being pinned to the mat. 

  • A short, flexible piece of leather forming part of a bullwhip, placed between the thong and the cracker. 

  • The lid, on a piano, that covers the keyboard 

  • A defect in the ice which causes stones thrown into an area to drift in a given direction. 

  • A hairpiece for women consisting of long strands of hair on a woven backing, intended primarily to cover hair loss. 

  • Blame or punishment for a failure or misdeed. 

  • The chasing of a hunted whale. 

  • A loss of greatness or status. 

  • That which falls or cascades. 

intj
  • The cry given when a whale is sighted, or harpooned. 

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