CRASHING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does crashing mean? 

• CRASHING (adjective)
  The adjective CRASHING has 1 sense:

1. informal intensifiers

  Familiarity information: CRASHING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CRASHING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Informal intensifiers

Synonyms:

bally; blinking; bloody; blooming; crashing; flaming; fucking

Context example:

you flaming idiot

Similar:

unmitigated (not diminished or moderated in intensity or severity; sometimes used as an intensifier)

 Context examples 

On all sides there was a rending and crashing of wood and steel and canvas.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

From the thicket-covered hillside came a crashing of underbrush, and then, forty feet above them, on the edge of the sheer wall of rock, appeared a wolf's head and shoulders.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Heating in the upper atmosphere 500 miles (800 kilometers) above the Great Red Spot is thought to be caused by a combination of these two wave types “crashing,” like ocean waves on a beach.

(Jupiter’s Great Red Spot Likely a Massive Heat Source, NASA)

For a good hour to come frequent reports shook the island, and balls kept crashing through the woods.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Or had some sudden blow from her hand dashed the support away and sent the slab crashing down into its place?

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And then suddenly, with a crashing and a rending, a thudding of giant feet and a panting of monster lungs the beast was upon me once more.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Every spar, rope, and stay was strained, and some of the "top-hammer" came crashing down.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

There was a great snarling and growling, and over all arose a smashing and crashing of furniture and glass.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

And he could hear the crashing of their bodies through the undergrowth, and the noises they made in the night.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Cassini's mission ended in September 2017 when, low on fuel, the spacecraft was deliberately plunged into Saturn's atmosphere by the mission team, which wanted to avoid crashing the craft onto the planet's moons.

(Scientists Finally Know What Time It Is on Saturn, NASA)