Crash vs. Trash — What's the Difference?

To break violently or noisily; smash

Waste material; refuse

To undergo sudden damage or destruction on impact

A person or people regarded as being of very low social standing

To make a sudden loud noise

The leaves, tops, and crushed stems of sugar cane, used as fuel.

To move noisily or so as to cause damage

Damage or destroy

To undergo a sudden severe downturn, as a market or economy.

Criticize severely

(Computers) To stop functioning due to a crash.

Intoxicated with alcohol or drugs

(Slang) To undergo a period of unpleasant feeling or depression as an aftereffect of drug-taking.

Strip (sugar canes) of their outer leaves to ripen them faster.

To find temporary lodging or shelter, as for the night.

Worthless or discarded material or objects; refuse or rubbish.

To fall asleep from exhaustion.

A place or receptacle where rubbish is discarded

To cause to crash

Something considered worthless or of inferior quality, such as a piece of writing.

To dash to pieces; smash

Disparaging, often abusive speech about a person or group.

(Informal) To join or enter (a party, for example) without invitation.

A person or group of people regarded as worthless or contemptible.

A sudden loud noise, as of an object breaking

Something broken off or removed to be discarded, especially plant trimmings.

A smashing to pieces.

The refuse of sugarcane after extraction of the juice.

A collision, as between two automobiles.

To throw away; discard

A sudden severe downturn

To damage or wreck, as by vandalism

A sudden failure of a hard drive caused by damaging contact between the head and the storage surface, often resulting in the loss of data on the drive.

To criticize severely or attack verbally

A sudden failure of a program or operating system, usually without serious consequences.

To remove twigs or branches from (a tree, for example).

(Slang) Mental depression after drug-taking.

To cut off the outer leaves of (growing sugarcane).

A coarse, light, unevenly woven fabric of cotton or linen, used for towels and curtains.

Useless physical things to be discarded; rubbish; refuse.

Starched reinforced fabric used to strengthen a book binding or the spine of a bound book.

A container into which things are discarded.

Of or characterized by an intensive effort to produce or accomplish

Something worthless or of poor quality.

A sudden, intense, loud sound, as made for example by cymbals.

A dubious assertion, either for appearing untrue or for being excessively boastful.

An automobile, airplane, or other vehicle accident.

The disused stems, leaves, or vines of a crop, as well as any weeds mixed therewith, which will either be plowed in as green manure or be removed by raking, grazing, or burning.

(computing) A malfunction of computer software or hardware which causes it to shut down or become partially or totally inoperable.

Loose-leaf tobacco of a low grade, with much less commercial value than the principal grades.

(finance) A sudden large decline of business or the prices of stocks (especially one that causes additional failures).

People of low social status or class. See, for example, white trash or Eurotrash.

(informal) A comedown from a drug.

A fan who is excessively obsessed with their fandom and its fanworks.

(collective) A group of rhinoceroses.

(computing) Temporary storage on disk for files that the user has deleted, allowing them to be recovered if necessary.

(ecology) A sudden decline in any living form's population levels, often leading to extinction.

(US) To discard.

(textiles) A type of rough linen.

(US) To make into a mess.

Quick, fast, intensive, impromptu.

(US) To beat soundly in a game.

(intransitive) To collide with something destructively, fall or come down violently.

(US) To disrespect someone or something

(transitive) To severely damage or destroy something by causing it to collide with something else.

To free from trash, or worthless matter; hence, to lop; to crop.

To accelerate a project or a task or its schedule by devoting more resources to it.

To treat as trash, or worthless matter; hence, to spurn, humiliate, or crush.

To make or experience informal temporary living arrangements, especially overnight.

To hold back by a trash or leash, as a dog in pursuing game; hence, to retard, encumber, or restrain; to clog; to hinder vexatiously.

To give, as a favor.

That which is worthless or useless; rubbish; refuse.

To lie down for a long rest, sleep or nap, as from tiredness or exhaustion.

Especially, loppings and leaves of trees, bruised sugar cane, or the like.

To terminate extraordinarily.

A worthless person.

To cause to terminate extraordinarily.

A collar, leash, or halter used to restrain a dog in pursuing game.

(intransitive) To experience a period of depression and/or lethargy after a period of euphoria, as after the euphoric effect of a psychotropic drug has dissipated.

To free from trash, or worthless matter; hence, to lop; to crop, as to trash the rattoons of sugar cane.

(transitive) To hit or strike with force

To treat as trash, or worthless matter; hence, to spurn, humiliate, or crush.

To take a sudden and severe turn for the worse; to rapidly deteriorate.

To hold back by a trash or leash, as a dog in pursuing game; hence, to retard, encumber, or restrain; to clog; to hinder vexatiously.

To make a sudden loud noise.

To follow with violence and trampling.

To break in pieces violently; to dash together with noise and violence.

Worthless material that is to be disposed of

To make a loud, clattering sound, as of many things falling and breaking at once; to break in pieces with a harsh noise.

Worthless people

To break with violence and noise; as, the chimney in falling crashed through the roof.

Nonsensical talk or writing

A loud, sudden, confused sound, as of many things falling and breaking at once.

Amphetamine used in the form of a crystalline hydrochloride; used as a stimulant to the nervous system and as an appetite suppressant

Ruin; failure; sudden breaking down, as of a business house or a commercial enterprise.

Dispose of (something useless or old);

Coarse, heavy, narrow linen cloth, used esp. for towels.

Express a totally negative opinion of;

A loud resonant repeating noise;

A serious accident (usually involving one or more vehicles);

A sudden large decline of business or the prices of stocks (especially one that causes additional failures)

The act of colliding with something;

(computer science) an event that causes a computer system to become inoperative;

Fall or come down violently;

Move with, or as if with, a crashing noise;

Undergo damage or destruction on impact;

Move violently as through a barrier;

Break violently or noisily; smash;

Occupy, usually uninvited;

Enter uninvited; informal;

Cause to crash;

Hurl or thrust violently;

Undergo a sudden and severe downturn;

Stop operating;

Sleep in a convenient place;