estrellar
/estɾeˈʝaɾ/ · A2 · verb
to crash
⭐💥 estrella (star) + -ar: to make something burst into a star shape
From estrella, star. Something hurled against a wall bursts outward in a star-shaped splat, so estrellar came to mean smash or crash. Estrellarse is to crash; a plan that se estrella comes to nothing. As an adjective it means stellar.