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crash
adjective [before noun] /kræʃ/ informalDefinition
(Definition of crash adjective from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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- Advancing and moving forward
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- Bending, twisting and curving
- Boarding and alighting from modes of transport
- Bouncing
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- Crossing and moving through
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- Digging
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- Inserting and forcing things into other things
- Jumping
- Making short, sudden movements
- Messengers and people who deliver things
- Movement
- Movement of liquids
- Movement on or through water
- Movement through the air
- Moving a long way on foot
- Moving downwards
- Moving firmly on foot
- Moving gently on foot
- Moving in order to avoid contact
- Moving on your hands and legs or on your stomach
- Moving quickly
- Moving to avoid being seen
- Moving unsteadily or with difficulty
- Moving upwards
- Not holding the body upright
- Phrases telling people to go away
- Physical gestures of respect
- Places and locations
- Placing and positioning an object
- Pleasant and make-believe places
- Posture
- Pulling
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- Pushing and shoving
- Raising and lowering
- Reclining
- Removing and extracting
- Returning to a place
- Revolving, rotating and spinning
- Runaways and refugees
- Running away and escaping
- Shaking, swinging and vibrating
- Sitting and standing
- Slow and moving slowly
- Speed of motion
- Staying and remaining
- Stretching the body
- Taking someone somewhere or telling them the way
- Throwing
- Transferring and transporting objects
- Turning upside down
- Unpleasant places
- Up and upward
- Visiting
- Walking and walkers
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SMART Thesaurus: Fast and rapid
Synonyms and related words:
- a mile a minute idiom
- apace adverb
- as fast as your legs would carry you idiom
- as if it is going out of style idiom
- at a rate of knots idiom
- fleet adjective
- hell for leather idiom
- helter-skelter adverb
- high-speed adjective
- hotfoot adverb
- hustle verb (PUSH)
- in the twinkling of an eye idiom
- posthaste adverb
- prompt adjective
- promptly adverb
- quick-fire adjective
- quickly adverb
- rapid adjective
- spanking adjective
- supersonic adjective
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