🇬🇧 Clash meaning: English Vocabulary Flash Card

A "clash" is a sudden, loud, crashing noise that happens when hard things, like metal or glass, bang into each other. It can sound like pots and pans smashing together, swords hitting in a movie, or two metal trash can lids slamming into each other. The sound is usually sharp and surprising, and it often means something hit something else pretty hard.

When the lid fell into the metal pot, the clash was so big my brain said, "New rule: use plastic."

Our science experiment ended with a clash and a teacher saying, "That was loud, but… educational."

I made such a loud clash with the pots that my cat promoted me to "Noisiest Human in the Kitchen."

I knocked over the stack of pans and the clash was so loud I’m pretty sure the moon heard it.

When an orchestra plays, the huge clash of the cymbals is often saved for the most exciting moment, like a musical firework going "KLANG!"

The kitchen fell quiet, then a sudden clash as a pan hit tiles. A second clash when the lid dropped, a third clash as forks slid, a small clash when a glass chipped, the final clash as a tray hit the door. She stood frozen, then laughed at the noisy clash and picked up the pieces.

This word is at the C2 level, which means it represents the highest mastery of English. It’s often used in specialized or highly formal contexts and helps you communicate with precision and subtlety, much like a native speaker.

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