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Past tense of crash

regular verb

The past tense of crash is crashed. The past participle is also crashed.

Forms of crash

Base form (V1)crash /ˈkɹæʃ/
Past tense (V2)crashed /kɹæʃt/
Past participle (V3)crashed /kɹæʃt/
Present participlecrashing /ˈkɹæʃɪŋ/
Third person singularcrashes /ˈkɹæʃɪz/

Crashed in a sentence

  • When the car crashed into a house, the driver was heavily injured.
  • After driving into a tree last week, grandpa's crashed into a deer this morning.
  • A cheque for zero dollars and zero cents crashed the computers on division by zero.From the entry zero
  • Uncle José has crashed the car again. He ran into a tree.From the entry have
  • Dad went into orbit when I told him that I'd crashed the car.From the entry orbit

Meaning of crash

  1. noun A sudden, intense, loud sound, as made for example by cymbals.
  2. noun An automobile, airplane, or other vehicle accident.
  3. noun A malfunction of computer software or hardware which causes it to shut down or become partially or totally inoperable.

Full definition of crash

Questions about the past tense of crash

What is the past tense of crash?
The past tense of crash is crashed.
What is the past participle of crash?
The past participle of crash is crashed.
Is crash a regular or irregular verb?
Crash is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: crash (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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