Crash and Press

Crash

Crash verb - To come into usually forceful contact with something.

Usage example: the speeding car crashed into the tree with horrifying results

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Press and crash are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Press" instead a verb "Crash".

Nearby Words: crashed, crashing

Press verb - To force one's way.

Usage example: we continued to press deeper and deeper into the tangled rain forest

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Crash and press are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Crash" instead a verb "Press".

Nearby Words: pressed, pressing, pressroom

good	good crash	good press
single	single crash	single press
simple	simple crash	simple press
actual	actual crash	actual press
Other adjectives: real, hard, large, huge, terrible, spectacular, new, major, final, mysterious, random, financial.

In SkyGunner, when your plane is knocked off balance, you're given a set of buttons that you must press repeatedly to recover control before you crash.

Source: Press X to Not Die aka: Quick Time Event
Only in Florida: During a segment about Florida demanding that welfare recipients take drug urinalysis tests, Aasif Maandvi manages to crash an actual press conference with Gov.

Source: Series / The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
Also in Pinkeye, the button the Cosmonauts accidentally press to crash the Mir space station is labelled "hoopsie" in Cyrillic script— a possible transliteration of either "oopsie" or "whoopsie".

Source: Bilingual Bonus

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