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单词 crashing
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Definition of crashing in English:

crashing

adjectiveˈkraʃɪŋˈkræʃɪŋ
informal
  • Complete; total (used for emphasis)

    〈非正式〉(用于强调)完全的,彻头彻尾的

    a crashing bore

    讨厌透顶的人(或事物)。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • I have visited Friends Reunited and found the whole thing a crashing bore.
    • Two hours is just the right length to be a crashing, uncommunicative bore.
    • For the rains, if anything, have now become a crashing bore in Mumbai.
    • She made no bones of the fact that she thought him a crashing bore and a regular bum.
    • The learned explanations by the translator were a crashing bore.
    • This isn't to say that it is, to borrow from one of its songs, a crashing bore.
    • Most of Friday's lead-up events were, not to put too fine a point on it, a crashing bore.
    • The staging was subpar and the costumes a crashing bore to anyone who knows anything about Wagner performances of the last 40 years or so.
    • Studying economics and only economics in the third year made life in the classroom a crashing bore.
    • At a deeper level, it seems to me that she is a world-class crashing bore.
    • In the great house-clearing of ideas which no longer serve, religion - specifically, Christianity - suffered a crashing defeat.
    • It's just like the issue of Aida being one of the greatest of all operas and still being a crashing bore.
    • I think he has simply demonstrated once again why he has become such a crashing bore.
    Synonyms
    very great, huge, enormous, immense, colossal, massive, prodigious, stupendous, tremendous, monumental, mammoth, vast, gigantic, giant, mighty, herculean, epic, monstrous, titanic, towering, king-sized, king-size

Derivatives

  • crashingly

  • adverb
    informal
    • We'd all go home feeling crashingly underwhelmed.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • He's also crashingly, loudly, agonizingly wrong to order the police to confiscate legally owned private property.
      • I have a bit of a temperature tonight and I'm crashingly tired.
      • Never, in a long life have I read so many statements of the crashingly obvious.
      • There is also the fact that cockney gangsters of the sort found here had their cinematic stock crashingly devalued by all those geezer movies a few years ago.

Definition of crashing in US English:

crashing

adjectiveˈkræʃɪŋˈkraSHiNG
informal
  • Complete; total (used for emphasis)

    〈非正式〉(用于强调)完全的,彻头彻尾的

    a crashing bore

    讨厌透顶的人(或事物)。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Most of Friday's lead-up events were, not to put too fine a point on it, a crashing bore.
    • I think he has simply demonstrated once again why he has become such a crashing bore.
    • This isn't to say that it is, to borrow from one of its songs, a crashing bore.
    • In the great house-clearing of ideas which no longer serve, religion - specifically, Christianity - suffered a crashing defeat.
    • It's just like the issue of Aida being one of the greatest of all operas and still being a crashing bore.
    • At a deeper level, it seems to me that she is a world-class crashing bore.
    • The learned explanations by the translator were a crashing bore.
    • The staging was subpar and the costumes a crashing bore to anyone who knows anything about Wagner performances of the last 40 years or so.
    • For the rains, if anything, have now become a crashing bore in Mumbai.
    • I have visited Friends Reunited and found the whole thing a crashing bore.
    • Two hours is just the right length to be a crashing, uncommunicative bore.
    • Studying economics and only economics in the third year made life in the classroom a crashing bore.
    • She made no bones of the fact that she thought him a crashing bore and a regular bum.
    Synonyms
    very great, huge, enormous, immense, colossal, massive, prodigious, stupendous, tremendous, monumental, mammoth, vast, gigantic, giant, mighty, herculean, epic, monstrous, titanic, towering, king-sized, king-size
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