{
    "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."
}