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/ˈlæn(d).slaɪd/ · noun
A natural disaster that involves the breakup and downhill flow of rock, mud, water and anything caught in the path..
Near-synonym: mudflow
The landslides Wednesday in Zhejiang province, south of the financial hub of Shanghai, followed Typhoon Megi, which brought heavy rains and high winds to China and Taiwan this past week.[…] The second landslide in Wencheng county killed five people, with one person still missing, an official at the county’s flood control office said Saturday.
The candidate won at 61% to 39%, which most people are calling a landslide.
So it landslid mightily, carrying off greens and fairways and all.
Use landslide when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Landslide means A natural disaster that involves the breakup and downhill flow of rock, mud, water and anything caught in the path..
Common synonyms include earthfall, landslip, mudflow, landslide victory.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Near-synonym: mudflow
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