Crash
(v. t. ) To break in pieces violently |
Crash
(v. i.) To make a loud, clattering sound, as of many things falling and breaking at once |
Crash
(v. i.) To break with violence and noise |
Crash
(n.) A loud, sudden, confused sound, as of many things falling and breaking at once. |
Crash
(n.) Ruin |
Crash
(n.) Coarse, heavy, narrow linen cloth, used esp. for towels. |
Fall
(v. t.) To Descend, either suddenly or gradually |
Fall
(v. t.) To cease to be erect |
Fall
(v. t.) To find a final outlet |
Fall
(v. t.) To become prostrate and dead |
Fall
(v. t.) To cease to be active or strong |
Fall
(v. t.) To issue forth into life |
Fall
(v. t.) To decline in power, glory, wealth, or importance |
Fall
(v. t.) To be overthrown or captured |
Fall
(v. t.) To descend in character or reputation |
Fall
(v. t.) To become insnared or embarrassed |
Fall
(v. t.) To assume a look of shame or disappointment |
Fall
(v. t.) To sink |
Fall
(v. t.) To pass somewhat suddenly, and passively, into a new state of body or mind |
Fall
(v. t.) To happen |
Fall
(v. t.) To come |
Fall
(v. t.) To begin with haste, ardor, or vehemence |
Fall
(v. t.) To pass or be transferred by chance, lot, distribution, inheritance, or otherwise |
Fall
(v. t.) To belong or appertain. |
Fall
(v. t.) To be dropped or uttered carelessly |
Fall
(v. t.) To let fall |
Fall
(v. t.) To sink |
Fall
(v. t.) To diminish |
Fall
(v. t.) To bring forth |
Fall
(v. t.) To fell |
Fall
(n.) The act of falling |
Fall
(n.) The act of dropping or tumbling from an erect posture |
Fall
(n.) Death |
Fall
(n.) Downfall |
Fall
(n.) The surrender of a besieged fortress or town |
Fall
(n.) Diminution or decrease in price or value |
Fall
(n.) A sinking of tone |
Fall
(n.) Declivity |
Fall
(n.) Descent of water |
Fall
(n.) The discharge of a river or current of water into the ocean, or into a lake or pond |
Fall
(n.) Extent of descent |
Fall
(n.) The season when leaves fall from trees |
Fall
(n.) That which falls |
Fall
(n.) The act of felling or cutting down. |
Fall
(n.) Lapse or declension from innocence or goodness. Specifically: The first apostasy |
Fall
(n.) Formerly, a kind of ruff or band for the neck |
Fall
(n.) That part (as one of the ropes) of a tackle to which the power is applied in hoisting. |
Hazard
(n.) A game of chance played with dice. |
Hazard
(n.) The uncertain result of throwing a die |
Hazard
(n.) Risk |
capitulation
fall surrender | the act of surrendering (usually under agreed conditions), they were protected until the capitulation of the fort |
| spill tumble fall | a sudden drop from an upright position, he had a nasty spill on the ice |
crash
smash | the act of colliding with something, his crash through the window, the fullback's smash into the defensive line |
| crash landing | an emergency landing under circumstances where a normal landing is impossible (usually damaging the aircraft) |
| crash dive | a rapid descent by a submarine |
| fall | a lapse into sin, a loss of innocence or of chastity, a fall from virtue |
| fall cankerworm | green or brown white-striped looper, larva of Alsophila pometaria |
fall armyworm
Spodoptera frugiperda | larva of a migratory American noctuid moth, destroys grasses and small grains |
fall webworm
Hyphantria cunea | a variety of webworm |
| crash barrier | a strong protective barrier that is erected around a racetrack or in the middle of a dual-lane highway in order to reduce the likelihood of severe accidents |
| crash helmet | a padded helmet worn by people riding bicycles or motorcycles, protects the head in case of accidents |
fallboard
fall-board | the hinged protective covering that protects the keyboard of a piano when it is not being played |
| hazard | an obstacle on a golf course |
| water hazard | hazard provided by ponds of water that the golfer must avoid |
drop
dip
fall
free fall | a sudden sharp decrease in some quantity, a drop of points on the Dow Jones index, there was a drop in pressure in the pulmonary artery, a dip in prices, when that became known the price of their stock went into free fall |
sale in gross
contract of hazard | a sale of a tract of land as a whole without a warranty as to the acreage |
crash course
crash program
crash programme | a rapid and intense course of training or research (usually undertaken in an emergency), he took a crash course in Italian on his way to Italy, his first job was a crash course in survival and in learning how to get along with people, a crash programme is needed to create new jobs |
crash
wreck | a serious accident (usually involving one or more vehicles), they are still investigating the crash of the TWA plane |
drop
fall | a free and rapid descent by the force of gravity, it was a miracle that he survived the drop from that height |
| free fall | the ideal falling motion of something subject only to a gravitational field |
| fall | a movement downward, the rise and fall of the tides |
clang
clangor
clangour
clangoring
clank
clash
crash | a loud resonant repeating noise, he could hear the clang of distant bells |
| Fall of Man | (Judeo-Christian mythology) when Adam and Eve ate of the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil in the Garden of Eden, God punished them by driving them out of the Garden of Eden and into the world where they would be subject to sickness and pain and eventual death |
| fall downfall | a sudden decline in strength or number or importance, the fall of the House of Hapsburg |
| fall pin | when a wrestler's shoulders are forced to the mat |
| crash collapse | a sudden large decline of business or the prices of stocks (especially one that causes additional failures) |
| Fall | the lapse of mankind into sinfulness because of the sin of Adam and Eve, women have been blamed ever since the Fall |
| crash | (computer science) an event that causes a computer system to become inoperative, the crash occurred during a thunderstorm and the system has been down ever since |
| head crash | (computer science) a crash of a read
write head in a hard disk drive (usually caused by contact of the head with the surface of the magnetic disk) |
descent
declivity
fall
decline
declination
declension
downslope | a downward slope or bend |
chump
fool gull
mark
patsy
fall guy
sucker soft touch
mug | a person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of |
Perry
Oliver Hazard Perry
Commodore Perry | United States commodore who led the fleet that defeated the British on Lake Erie during the War of , brother of Matthew Calbraith Perry (-) |
luck
fortune
chance
hazard | an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another, bad luck caused his downfall, we ran into each other by pure chance |
fall dandelion
arnica bud
Leontodon autumnalis | fall-blooming European herb with a yellow flower, naturalized in the United States |
fall-blooming hydrangea
Hydrangea paniculata | deciduous shrub or small tree with pyramidal flower clusters |
| hazard insurance | insurance that provides protection against certain risks such as storms or fires |
hazard
jeopardy
peril
risk
endangerment | a source of danger, a possibility of incurring loss or misfortune, drinking alcohol is a health hazard |
| health hazard | hazard to the health of those exposed to it |
| moral hazard | (economics) the lack of any incentive to guard against a risk when you are protected against it (as by insurance), insurance companies are exposed to a moral hazard if the insured party is not honest |
| occupational hazard | any condition of a job that can result in illness or injury |
twilight
dusk
gloaming
gloam
nightfall
evenfall
fall crepuscule
crepuscle | the time of day immediately following sunset, he loved the twilight, they finished before the fall of night |
autumnal equinox
September equinox
fall equinox | September |
fall
autumn | the season when the leaves fall from the trees, in the fall of |
fall over backwards
bend over backwards | try very hard to please someone, She falls over backwards when she sees her mother-in-law |
fall asleep
dope off
flake out
drift off
nod off
drop off
doze off
drowse off | change from a waking to a sleeping state, he always falls asleep during lectures |
doss
doss down
crash | sleep in a convenient place, You can crash here, though it's not very comfortable |
fall over
go over | fall forward and down, The old woman went over without a sound |
relapse
lapse
recidivate
regress
retrogress
fall back | go back to bad behavior, Those who recidivate are often minor criminals |
| fall | pass suddenly and passively into a state of body or mind, fall into a trap, She fell ill, They fell out of favor, Fall in love, fall asleep, fall prey to an imposter, fall into a strange way of thinking, she fell to pieces after she lost her work |
| fall off fall away | diminish in size or intensity |