Crevasse
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /kɹəˈvæs/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Crevasse is a noun meaning A crack or fissure in a glacier or snowfield; a chasm.
Meaning
A crack or fissure in a glacier or snowfield; a chasm.
More Meanings
- (US) A breach in a canal or river bank.
- (by extension) Any cleft or fissure.
- (figuratively) A discontinuity or “gap” between the accounted variables and an observed outcome.
- (intransitive) To form crevasses.
- (transitive) To fissure with crevasses.
Example Sentences
I moved my left hand to the small of her back, just above her belt-line and stroked the peach fuzz in her crevasse with my fingers.
[…] he laments that he can find no physiological phenomenon answering to his subject’s winning a race, or losing it. Between his terminal output of energy and his victory or defeat there is a mysterious crevasse. Physiology is baffled.
Word Forms
- crevasses
- crevassing
- crevassed
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include cleft, drop, crack, crevice, rift, chasm.
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