Sekirov Dictionary

avalanche

UK /ˈævəlɑːnʃ/US /ˈævəlæn(t)ʃ/

noun 3
verb 3
forms 3

noun3

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A large mass or body of snow and ice sliding swiftly down a mountain side, or falling down a precipice.
- They were drinking from a fountain / That was pouring like an avalanche / Coming down the mountain — 1996
A fall of earth, rocks, etc., similar to that of an avalanche of snow or ice.
•
A sudden, great, or irresistible descent or influx; anything like an avalanche in suddenness and overwhelming quantity.
- Yes, but she talked it away. She uses a whole language to herself. Her discourse is an avalanche of words, beneath which the hearers are overwhelmed. — 1834

verb3

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To descend like an avalanche.
- Soon the sun’s warmth makes them shed crystal shells Shattering and avalanching on the snow-crust— — 1916
•
To come down upon; to overwhelm.
- The shelf broke and the boxes avalanched the workers.
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To propel downward like an avalanche.
- Then another misfortune avalanched itself upon me, before even I had fully taken in the extent of the first. — 1930

forms

avalanched · avalanching · avalanches

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