crashed
- 1Simple past and past participle of crash.
The plane crashed into the mountainside during the storm.
The stock market crashed within hours of the announcement.
Note
A regular -ed form, so one spelling covers both the past tense and the participle. Its constructions depend on the meaning. Intransitive uses, where something collides or comes down, form only perfects (the plane had crashed). Transitive ones also make passives: the car was crashed, the party was crashed in the slang gatecrash meaning, and in project management a schedule can be crashed by adding resources.
crashed is a form of crash
crash, verb: Of a vehicle, person, or object, to hit something or the ground hard or fall violently, often so that it is damaged or wrecked, or to make a vehicle do this. Full entry
- Spelling
- crash → crashed: add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /t/.
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