Defenition of the word avalanche

• Defenition of the word avalanche

  • A fall or slide of a large mass, as of snow or rock, down a mountainside.
  • Great quantity of ice or snow that falls down suddenly from a mountain slope while increasing in volume and speed.
  • a sudden appearance of an overwhelming number of things; "the program brought an avalanche of mail"
  • a slide of large masses of snow and ice and mud down a mountain
  • of snow masses in the mountains
  • a sudden appearance of an overwhelming number of things
  • gather into a huge mass and roll down a mountain, of snow

Synonyms for the word avalanche

• • accumulation
  • flood
  • inundation
  • landslide
  • mass
  • roll down
  • rush
  • snowslide
  • storm
  • sudden large amount

Similar words in the avalanche

• • avalanche
  • avalanche's
  • avalanches

Hyponyms for the word avalanche

• • lahar

Hypernyms for the word avalanche

• • come down
  • descend
  • fall
  • go down
  • happening
  • natural event
  • occurrence
  • occurrent
  • slide

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