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UK
/ˈævəlˌɑːnʃ/
]
[ US /ˈævəˌɫæntʃ/ ]
[ US /ˈævəˌɫæntʃ/ ]
VERB
- gather into a huge mass and roll down a mountain, of snow
NOUN
- a slide of large masses of snow and ice and mud down a mountain
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a sudden appearance of an overwhelming number of things
the program brought an avalanche of mail
How To Use avalanche In A Sentence
- There are rivers of lava as well, and huge avalanches.
- So those of you thinking about going hiking maybe this weekend into the Colorado Rockies, down to the San Juan, across the Wasatch and Siuwincas (ph) and up into parts of Idaho and Montana, we have what we call a considerable threat of avalanche danger in the back country areas. CNN Transcript Feb 18, 2007
- Giant avalanches, tidal waves, and many stock footage scenes of buildings collapsing result.
- The technology avalanche often leaves her feeling overwhelmed, anxious, and exhausted.
- That led to an avalanche of false accusals.
- Eight people have died in the past few days after snow, avalanches and freezing temperatures wreaked havoc. Times, Sunday Times
- That is 4 Super Delegates to endorse not 3 This is what we call a avalanche of supers He has gotton almost 30 supers in 1 week he only needs 146 Delegates to win the nomination Hopefully that will come to close after Kentucky and Oregon vote. Three more superdelegates for Obama
- A overview of the basic structure, operating principle and properties for a new single-photon photo-detector, called vacuum avalanche photodiode (VAPD), is presented too.
- Around the bays, the continent's ancient ice-cap creeps inexorably down to the sea in shelves that crack and avalanche with the sound of howitzer blasts.
- We've been almost buried under the avalanche of mail.