Breaking
Breaking noun - The act of breaking something.
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Crash and breaking are semantically related in equipment failure topic. In some cases you can use "Crash" instead the word "Breaking" as a noun or a verb.
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Hank defeats her, but the developers rigged it so that Peggy's defeat causes the gaming network to crash, breaking Hank's addiction.
Source: Fictional Video Game - A borderline example at the beginning of Revenge of the Sith: Grievous' cruiser falls out of the upper atmosphere, with barely any means of control (and massive chunks breaking off constantly, culminating in the ship breaking in half) and still manages to crash-land at an airstrip.
Source: Precision Crash - These crashes are Stock Sound Effects which tend to sound like a mixture of breaking glass, breaking crockery, and rattling metal objects - although in a lot of animated shows, particularly Hanna-Barbera cartoons, it sounds more like a bass drum/cymbal crash.
Source: Offscreen Crash
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