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Crevasse

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. A deep fissure, as in a glacier; a chasm.

n. A crack or breach in a dike or levee.

v. To develop or cause to develop crevasses.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. A crack or fissure in a glacier or snow field; a chasm.

n. A discontinuity or “gap” between the accounted variables and an observed outcome.

v. To form crevasses.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. A deep crevice or fissure, as in embankment; one of the clefts or fissure by which the mass of a glacier is divided.

n. A breach in the levee or embankment of a river, caused by the pressure of the water, as on the lower Mississippi.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. A fissure or crack: a term used by English writers in describing glaciers, to designate a rent or fissure in the ice, which may be of greater or less depth, and from an inch or two to many feet in width.

n. In the United States, a breach in the embankment or levee of a river, occasioned by the pressure of water, as in the lower Mississippi.

To rend, as the surface of a glacier, with fissures and cracks.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. a deep fissure

Word Usage

"Across the crevasse was a bridge made of ropes, spangled with lights and tied to the crumbling ruins at either end."

Verb Form

crevassed crevasses crevassing

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

scissure crack crevice fissure cleft

Cross Reference

crevasse cycle

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

cleft schrund chimney

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

gully cleft chasm fissure precipice