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{
"term": "crash",
"partOfSpeech": "noun",
"ox3000": true,
"cefr": "b2",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "an accident in which a vehicle hits something, for example another vehicle, usually causing damage and often injuring or killing the passengers",
"sensetop": "in a crash",
"labels": "North American English also",
"cefr": "b2",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "a **car/plane crash**"
},
{
"text": "A man has been arrested in connection with a **fatal crash** on the M4 motorway."
},
{
"text": "It is not clear what **caused the crash**."
},
{
"text": "A girl was **killed** yesterday **in a crash** involving a stolen car.",
"contextForm": "in a crash"
},
{
"text": "34 people **died in** the train **crash**."
},
{
"text": "There were no other vehicles **involved in the crash**."
},
{
"text": "Mechanical failures were to blame for the crash of the helicopter."
},
{
"text": "She had survived a plane crash."
},
{
"text": "He had survived a spectacular crash in a truck race."
},
{
"text": "She was killed in a train crash."
},
{
"text": "In thirty years of driving he had never had a crash."
},
{
"text": "She swerved to avoid a crash."
},
{
"text": "The crash claimed three lives."
},
{
"text": "a crash involving two cars and a bus"
},
{
"text": "a fiery crash which killed the pilot"
},
{
"text": "a major air crash"
}
],
"topics": ["Transport by car or lorry"],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["horrific", "major", "serious"],
"verb + crash": ["cause", "have", "survive"],
"crash + verb": ["happen", "occur", "involve something"],
"crash + noun": ["victim", "site", "landing"],
"preposition": ["in a/the crash"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "a sudden loud noise made, for example, by something falling or breaking",
"cefr": "b2",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "The tree fell with a great crash."
},
{
"text": "The first distant crash of thunder shook the air."
},
{
"text": "She heard the crash of shattering glass as the vehicles collided."
},
{
"text": "The bike hit the street and made a loud crash."
},
{
"text": "The plates fell to the floor with an almighty crash."
},
{
"text": "There was a sickening crash as his head hit the ground."
},
{
"text": "the crash of the waves"
}
],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["almighty", "deafening", "great"],
"verb + crash": ["hear", "make"],
"crash + verb": ["come from"],
"preposition": ["with a crash", "crash of"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 3,
"definition": "a sudden serious fall in the price or value of something; the occasion when a business, etc. fails",
"sensetop": "crash of…crash in something",
"cefr": "b2",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "Some economists have been predicting another crash for years."
},
{
"text": "the 2008 **stock market crash**"
},
{
"text": "the crash of 2008",
"contextForm": "crash of…"
},
{
"text": "a crash in share prices",
"contextForm": "crash in something"
}
],
"synonyms": "collapse",
"topics": ["Money"],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["financial", "bank", "dotcom"],
"preposition": ["crash in"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 4,
"definition": "a sudden failure of a machine or system, especially of a computer or computer system",
"cefr": "b2",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "Users won't lose important data if a hardware problem causes a crash."
},
{
"text": "a computer crash"
},
{
"text": "A systems crash in the morning and a bomb scare in the afternoon provided enough excitement for one day."
}
],
"topics": ["Computers"]
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/kræʃ/",
"audio": "cr/crash/crash__gb_2.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/kræʃ/",
"audio": "cr/crash/crash__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "late Middle English: imitative, perhaps partly suggested by craze and dash."
}