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▪ I. crashing, vbl. n.|ˈkræʃɪŋ|
[f. crash v. + -ing1.]
The action of the verb crash, q.v.
c1440Promp. Parv. 100 Cracchynge of tethe. c1450Merlin 155 The crassinge of speres. 1579Gosson Sch. Abuse (Arb.) 55 The Byrde Trochilus with crashing of her bil awakes the Crocodile. 1786tr. Beckford's Vathek (1868) 46 The crashing of bones. 1847L. Hunt Men, Women, & B. I. xii. 212 The horrible crashing of the tempest.
▪ II. ˈcrashing, ppl. a.
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
a. That crashes; that makes a crash; that breaks, falls, etc., with a crash; see the vb.
1580Baret Alv. G 300 A gnashing, grinding, or crashing noise, stridor. 1697Dryden æneid xii. 464 The broad axe enters with a crashing sound. 1718Pope Iliad xiii. 773 The crashing bones. 1833H. Martineau Cinnamon & P. iv. 69 Crashing thunder then came, peal upon peal. 1884Athenæum 8 Mar. 307/1 Remaining unmoved amid a crashing universe, and so forth.
†b. crashing lead: an old appellation of tin, from its crackling when bent. Obs. (See crash v. 4.)
1678R. Russell Geber iii. ii. ii. ii. 175 Crashing Lead, which is called White and in the Sentence of Art, Jupiter.
c. colloq. Overwhelming; esp. in phr. crashing bore.
[1928R. A. Knox in Sunday Dispatch 30 Sept. 12/7 Your rejuvenated Fausting, talking like seventy when he looks a generation younger, would be shunned..as a crash bore. 1930W. S. Maugham Breadwinner i. 18 Judy. What a bore the people are who went through it. Patrick. Crashing.] 1931R. Campbell Georgiad i. 16 Piping Nancy-boys and crashing Bores. 1935‘N. Blake’ Question of Proof vi. 96, I asked for a crashing great emergency to turn up..and it has. 1953X. Fielding Stronghold 108, I still consider the poem a crashing bore, a typical ‘provincial’ effort. |