Crash
Crash verb - To go to a lower level especially abruptly.
Usage example: sales of that digital camera have crashed since the competing version came out
Increase
Increase verb - To make greater in size, amount, or number.
How words are described
| short | short crash | short increase |
| total | total crash | total increase |
| simple | simple crash | simple increase |
| actual | actual crash | actual increase |
| Other adjectives: massive, large, big, huge, supposed, new, major, minor, inevitable, random, strange, recent, sudden, resulting, global. | ||
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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He's not above coaching his clients to remember the worst details about the crash, or using a dead child to increase the settlement with the airline.
Source: Film / Fearless (1993)
Cite this Source
Increase and Crash. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/crash/increase
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Increase or Crash. 2016. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/crash/increase.
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