crash
n. countablen. a sudden failure of a computer or a program that makes it stop working. It can also mean a sudden, large drop in the value of stocks or a market.
n. a sudden failure of a software application or operating system; also used to describe a rapid and significant decline in market prices or economic stability.
My computer had a crash and I lost my work.
The stock market crash of 2008 led to a global recession that lasted for several years.
The software developers struggled to replicate the system crash, which only occurred when multiple high-bandwidth processes were initiated simultaneously under peak server load.
From Middle English crasshen, crasschen, craschen (“to break into pieces”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps from a variant of earlier crasken, from crasen (“to break”) + -k (formative suffix); or from earlier craskien, *craksien, a variant of craken (“to crack, break open”) (for form development compare break, brask, brash).
Uncertain; perhaps compare Russian крашени́на (krašenína, “coarse linen”).
Commonly used with the verb 'to have' for computers or 'to suffer' for markets.