collide β If two or more moving people or objects collide, they crash into one another. If a moving person or object collides with a person or object that is not moving, they crash into them.
crash β A crash is an accident in which a moving vehicle hits something and is damaged or destroyed.
fall β to come or drop down suddenly to a lower position, especially to leave a standing or erect position suddenly, whether voluntarily or not: to fall on one's knees.
smash β to break to pieces with violence and often with a crashing sound, as by striking, letting fall, or dashing against something; shatter: He smashed the vase against the wall.
come down β If the cost, level, or amount of something comes down, it becomes less than it was before.
land β Edwin Herbert, 1909β91, U.S. inventor and businessman: created the Polaroid camera.
ditch β a long, narrow excavation made in the ground by digging, as for draining or irrigating land; trench.
bump β If you bump into something or someone, you accidentally hit them while you are moving.
collapse β If a building or other structure collapses, it falls down very suddenly.
dive β to plunge into water, especially headfirst.
drop β a small quantity of liquid that falls or is produced in a more or less spherical mass; a liquid globule.
hurtle β to rush violently; move with great speed: The car hurtled down the highway.
overturn β to destroy the power of; overthrow; defeat; vanquish.
plunge β to cast or thrust forcibly or suddenly into something, as a liquid, a penetrable substance, a place, etc.; immerse; submerge: to plunge a dagger into one's heart.
slip β to move, flow, pass, or go smoothly or easily; glide; slide: Water slips off a smooth surface.
topple β to fall forward, as from having too heavy a top; pitch; tumble down.
tumble β to fall helplessly down, end over end, as by losing one's footing, support, or equilibrium; plunge headlong: to tumble down the stairs.
lurch β Archaic. the act of lurking or state of watchfulness.
overbalance β to outweigh: The opportunity overbalances the disadvantages of leaving town.
pancake β a thin, flat cake of batter fried on both sides on a griddle or in a frying pan; griddlecake or flapjack.
sprawl β to be stretched or spread out in an unnatural or ungraceful manner: The puppy's legs sprawled in all directions.
upset β to overturn: to upset a pitcher of milk.
washout β a washing out of earth, gravel, etc., by water, as from an embankment or a roadway by heavy rain or by a flash flood.
bite the dust β to fail completely or cease to exist
crash-land β If a pilot crash-lands an aircraft, or if it crash-lands, it lands more quickly and less safely than usual, for example when there is something wrong with the aircraft, and it cannot land normally.