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CRASHING
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Informal intensifiers
Example:
you flaming idiot
Synonyms:
bally; blinking; bloody; blooming; crashing; flaming; fucking
Classified under:
Similar:
unmitigated (not diminished or moderated in intensity or severity; sometimes used as an intensifier)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb crash
Context examples:
Now, too, the archers had room to draw their bows once more, and great stones from the yard of the cog came thundering and crashing among the flying rovers.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Teenagers who reach for objects, such as food or makeup, while driving increase their risk of crashing nearly seven times, according to researchers at the National Institutes of Health.
(Reaching for objects while driving may raise teen crash risk nearly sevenfold, National Institutes of Health)
We track objects and predict collisions to high accuracy and if we think a space debris object is going to have a collision with another space debris object then we can use our laser to change its orbits rather than crashing into a satellite or another space debris object causing more space debris.
(Australia Developing Lasers to Track, Destroy Space Junk, VOA)
Sputtering happens when energetic particles are accelerated into the atmosphere and knock molecules around, kicking some of them out into space and sending others crashing into their neighbors, the way a cue ball does in a game of pool.
(Mars Mission Sheds Light on Habitability of Distant Planets, NASA)
I had just made out that the gig contained a man and a woman, when suddenly I saw it swerve off the road, and come with a galloping horse and bounding wheels right across the moor, crashing through the gorse bushes, and sinking down to the hubs in the heather and bracken.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Then there was the crashing about of the entwined bodies, the laboured breathing, the short quick gasps of sudden pain.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
Teens manually using a cell phone doubled their odds of crashing.
(Reaching for objects while driving may raise teen crash risk nearly sevenfold, National Institutes of Health)
Here and there bounded Sir Nigel, his head erect, his jaunty plume fluttering in the air, while his dark opponent sent in crashing blow upon blow, following fiercely up with cut and with thrust, but never once getting past the practised blade of the skilled swordsman.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The action seemed, as I thought, to show not only the great development of its muscles, but also the small one of its brain, for the whole weight came crashing down upon the top of it, and it uttered a series of shrill yelps to show that, big as it was, there was a limit to what it could endure.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Here a squat and brawny god held sway, with much noise, hurling trunks and boxes about, dragging them in through the door and tossing them into the piles, or flinging them out of the door, smashing and crashing, to other gods who awaited them.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
