crevasse
a fissure, or deep cleft, in glacial ice, the earth's surface, etc.
a breach in an embankment or levee.
to fissure with crevasses.
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Origin of crevasse
1Other words from crevasse
- un·cre·vassed, adjective
Words that may be confused with crevasse
- crevice, crevasse
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How to use crevasse in a sentence
Elected officials for District 4 in Riverside County, which encompasses Thermal, are not blind to the climate crevasse in front of them.
Postcard From Thermal: Surviving the Climate Gap in Eastern Coachella Valley | by Elizabeth Weil and Mauricio Rodríguez Pons | August 17, 2021 | ProPublicaTraffic jams formed on either side of creaking aluminum ladders that were lashed together to span the gaping crevasses.
Jumping between scenes of the team airlifting an immobile skier and pulling a man out of a crevasse nine stories deep, The Horn captures the toll of making such dangerous rescues on the alpine peak.
‘The Horn’ Goes Behind the Scenes of Matterhorn Rescues | Outside Editors | April 8, 2021 | Outside OnlineWe make our choices, and we have no way to judge whether they were the right ones — so our experiences and beliefs begin to split along chaotic crevasses of bad luck.
The Year Of Choosing Dangerously | Maggie Koerth (maggie.koerth-baker@fivethirtyeight.com) | March 11, 2021 | FiveThirtyEightCovered in crevasses hundreds of miles long, this place became the first active fault zone found on Mars.
Rumbles on Mars Raise Hopes of Underground Magma Flows | Robin George Andrews | February 1, 2021 | Quanta Magazine
Some days, she felt as though glaciers were buckling around her and a crevasse yawned beneath her.
Breaking Mount Everest’s Glass Ceiling | Amanda Padoan, Peter Zuckerman | March 30, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTWith the crawling, for instance, Bradey had been on top of a snow bridge that crossed a crevasse.
Breaking Mount Everest’s Glass Ceiling | Amanda Padoan, Peter Zuckerman | March 30, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTAt one point he fell down a crevasse and was left dangling in the abyss from a rope, up which he dragged his disintegrating body.
The path to the ancient site winds through a narrow, deep crevasse between the famous red rocks.
A crevasse was made in the levee above New Orleans flooding much of the city.
The Every Day Book of History and Chronology | Joel MunsellOr perhaps the Zab may have found some great crevasse in the mountains which gave it the opportunity that it needed.
The Cradle of Mankind | W.A. WigramA small crevasse opened near at hand and was a natural receptacle for rubbish.
The Home of the Blizzard | Douglas MawsonA tunnel was driven into the sloping surface of the ice towards a crevasse about a foot wide.
The Home of the Blizzard | Douglas MawsonIt was a ticklish business recovering the sledge which hung suspended in the crevasse.
The Home of the Blizzard | Douglas Mawson
British Dictionary definitions for crevasse
/ (krɪˈvæs) /
a deep crack or fissure, esp in the ice of a glacier
US a break in a river embankment
(tr) US to make a break or fissure in (a dyke, wall, etc)
Origin of crevasse
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Scientific definitions for crevasse
[ krĭ-văs′ ]
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.
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