avalanche

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim 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”

2. isim A fall of earth, rocks, etc., similar to that of an avalanche of snow or ice.
3. isim 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.”

4. fiil To descend like an avalanche.

   “Soon the sun’s warmth makes them shed crystal shells Shattering and avalanching on the snow-crust—”

5. fiil To come down upon; to overwhelm.

   “The shelf broke and the boxes avalanched the workers.”

6. fiil To propel downward like an avalanche.

   “The scuppers could not carry off the burden of water on the schooner’s deck. She rolled it out and took it in over one rail and the other; and at times, nose thrown skyward, sitting down on her heel, she avalanched it aft.”