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crevasse
[kruh-vas]
noun
a fissure, or deep cleft, in glacial ice, the earth's surface, etc.
a breach in an embankment or levee.
verb (used with object)
to fissure with crevasses.
crevasse
/ ɪˈæ /
noun
a deep crack or fissure, esp in the ice of a glacier
a break in a river embankment
verb
(tr) to make a break or fissure in (a dyke, wall, etc)
crevasse
A deep fissure in a glacier or other body of ice. Crevasses are usually caused by differential movement of parts of the ice over an uneven topography.
A large, deep fissure in the Earth caused by an earthquake.
A wide crack or breach in the bank of a river. Crevasses usually form during floods.
◆ The sediments that spill out through the crevasse and fan out along the external margin of the river's bank form a crevasse splay deposit.
Other Word Forms
- uncrevassed adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of crevasse1
Example Sentences
While repelling a mountain wall, Mr Huserka’s thread cracked and he fell into an ice crevasse, he partner said.
Three more bodies were recovered from within the crevasses of the glacier.
To Byatt, maternal mental health is not a gap but a crevasse.
There’s a point being made there: His wrinkles and crevasses echo the landscape, which has also been shaped by time and forces of nature.
He described a near-death plunge into a crevasse when he failed to detect it beneath a blanket of snow.
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