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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)
crevassed, crevassing.
- to fissure with crevasses.
crevasse
/ 办谤瑟藞惫忙蝉 /
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.
- 鈼 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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Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of crevasse1
C19: from French: crevice
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While repelling a mountain wall, Mr Huserka鈥檚 thread cracked and he fell into an ice crevasse, he partner said.
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Three more bodies were recovered from within the crevasses of the glacier.
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To Byatt, maternal mental health is not a gap but a crevasse.
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There鈥檚 a point being made there: His wrinkles and crevasses echo the landscape, which has also been shaped by time and forces of nature.
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He described a near-death plunge into a crevasse when he failed to detect it beneath a blanket of snow.
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