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# crashing

noun (crashing, crashings); also the -ing form of the verb «crash»

«crashing» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. A loud noise of things smashing, breaking or falling. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crashing/#m1)
2. The sound of heavy bodies bursting through things, such as trees or branches. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crashing/#m2)

### In the lessons

in tales, the noise of creatures or people pushing through a wood, breaking branches as they go

### Examples

- We heard a crashing in the bushes. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crashing/#x1)
- The falling tree made a loud crashing. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crashing/#x2)
- Through the crashings of the branches, the horse ran on. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crashing/#x3)

### Note

nothing for maths

## In Jewish tradition

It means loud noise. In Job it is God's thunder, and in Zephaniah it is the sound of the city's fall.

**Interpretation.** Thunder is read as God's voice, showing His power. Zephaniah's crashing is the coming "day of the LORD," a day of judgment.

### Examples

- Yea, can any understand the spreadings of the clouds, the crashings of His pavilion? (Writings JOB.36.29, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/crashing/#x1)
- And in that day, saith the LORD, Hark! a cry from the fish gate, and a wailing from the second quarter, and a great crashing from the hills. (Prophets ZEP.1.10, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/crashing/#x2)

### Note

nothing for maths

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «crashing» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crashing/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«crashing» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/crashing.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of «crashing» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/crashing/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«crashing» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/crashing.html) on Mova free.