avalanche as a noun: - 1
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as a verb: - 1
avalanche
noun
1 avalanche
A slide of large masses of snow and ice and mud down a mountain.
Roget 306:
descent,
descension†,
declension,
declination;
fall;
falling
etc.
v.;
slump;
drop,
plunge,
plummet,
cadence;
subsidence,
collapse,
lapse;
downfall,
tumble,
slip,
tilt,
trip,
lurch;
cropper,
culbute†;
titubation†,
stumble;
fate of Icarus.
avalanche,
debacle,
landslip,
landslide.
declivity,
dip,
hill.
[equipment for descending by rappeling]
rappel.
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Roget 641:
redundancy,
redundance†;
too much,
too many;
superabundance,
superfluity,
superfluence†,
saturation;
nimiety†,
transcendency,
exuberance,
profuseness;
profusion
etc.
(plenty)
639;
repletion,
enough in all conscience,
satis superque [Lat.],
lion's share;
more than enough
etc.
639;
plethora,
engorgement,
congestion,
load,
surfeit,
sickener†;
turgescence
etc.
(expansion)
194†;
overdose,
overmeasure†,
oversupply,
overflow;
inundation
etc.
(water)
348;
avalanche.
accumulation
etc.
(store)
636;
heap
etc.
72;
drug,
drug in the market;
glut;
crowd;
burden.
excess;
surplus,
overplus†;
epact†;
margin;
remainder
etc.
40;
duplicate;
surplusage†,
expletive;
work of supererogation;
bonus,
bonanza.
luxury;
intemperance
etc.
954;
extravagance
etc.
(prodigality)
818;
exorbitance,
lavishment†.
pleonasm
etc.
(diffuseness)
573;
too many irons in the fire;
embarras de richesses [Fr.].
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Dutch: lawine
Polish: lawina
2 avalanche
A sudden appearance of an overwhelming number of things.
Dutch: golf
verb
1 avalanche
Gather into a huge mass and roll down a mountain, of snow.
synonym: roll down.
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