crashing

Severe; drastic.

Adjective

  1. Severe; drastic.
    • Advances were brought to crashing halts, and whole areas became impassable. - 2016, Simon R. Green, Deathstalker War:
    • That the debut of the play on 20 April 1842 was a crashing failure is apparent from a letter from Charles […] - 2020, Donald J. Lange, The Life and Poetry of George Darley, page 114:

Related

crashing bore

Derived

crashingly party-crashing

Noun

  1. The sound or action of something that crashes.
    • the ceaseless crashings of waves on the beach

Forms

crashings

Verb

  1. present participle and gerund of crash