Avalanche

Quick meaning: Avalanche is a noun meaning A large mass or body of snow and ice sliding swiftly down a mountain side, or falling down a precipice.

Meaning

A large mass or body of snow and ice sliding swiftly down a mountain side, or falling down a precipice.

More Meanings

1. A fall of earth, rocks, etc., similar to that of an avalanche of snow or ice.
2. (by extension) A sudden, great, or irresistible descent or influx; anything like an avalanche in suddenness and overwhelming quantity.
3. (intransitive) To descend like an avalanche.
4. (transitive) To come down upon; to overwhelm.
5. (transitive) To propel downward like an avalanche.

Example Sentences

I stepped into an avalanche, it covered up my soul

The shelf broke and the boxes avalanched the workers.

They were drinking from a fountain / That was pouring like an avalanche / Coming down the mountain

Soon the sun’s warmth makes them shed crystal shells Shattering and avalanching on the snow-crust—

Word Forms

• avalanches
• avalanching
• avalanched

Synonyms for avalanche

Depending on context, synonyms include snowslide, snowslip, barrage, blitz.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include landslide, snow, ice, glacier, blizzard, flood.

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