Crash
Crash verb - To cause to break with violence and much noise.
Mutual synonyms
How words are described
| good | good crash | good stay |
| short | short crash | short stay |
| initial | initial crash | initial stay |
| infamous | infamous crash | infamous stay |
| Other adjectives: weird, several, giant, red, horrific. | ||
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
- Remy has been raising Marion since she was 6, so when Martine is killed in a car crash, she wants to stay with him instead of going to live with her real father.
Source: Parental Incest - Zero 4: (a real big one, and arguably the best of all his efforts): opting to stay on board a falling space satellite instead of allowing it to crash on the last free colony of humans.
Source: Heroic Sacrifice / Video Games - The Nintendo Entertainment System did this intentionally because The Great Video Game Crash of 1983 made consoles very hard to sell on their own: Come for R.O.B., stay for Super Mario Bros.
Cite this Source
Stay and Crash. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 07, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/crash/stay
Crash & Stay. N.p., 2016. Web. 07 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/crash/stay>.
Stay or Crash. 2016. Accessed August 07, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/crash/stay.
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