avalanche
About 1.38 uses per million words.
Meaning
- noun A large mass or body of snow and ice sliding swiftly down a mountain side, or falling down a precipice.
- noun A fall of earth, rocks, etc., similar to that of an avalanche of snow or ice.
- noun A sudden, great, or irresistible descent or influx; anything like an avalanche in suddenness and overwhelming quantity.
- verb To descend like an avalanche.
- verb To come down upon; to overwhelm.
The shelf broke and the boxes avalanched the workers.
- verb To propel downward like an avalanche.
Similar words
roll down landslide snow ice glacier blizzard flood cascade tide torrent
Often followed by
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Word family
avalanched avalanches avalanching
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