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crevasse

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1. crevasse - Noun

2. crevasse - Verb

Meaning

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

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

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As a rule, anything that is pretty you avoid when on an expedition in the polar extremes. Normally anything other than white means a hazard such as a crevasse. Ranulph Fiennes

Please, ground, just open up and let me fall into an endless crevasse till I hit the center of the earth and combust. Please. Is that too much to ask? Cate Tiernan

Eugene finds Claire curled up in a rock crevasse glued to her screen and takes her back to the village, driving her into painful withdrawal when he refuses to replace the batteries for her screen. Source: Internet

But as I was raised, I was being pulled to the left side of the crevasse away from the glass wall, so I spun around to the left and found a narrow, sloping, stepped ledge. Source: Internet

I am going to work my ass off, keep flapping my feathers in every crevasse that opens beneath me, and that's life. Source: Internet

Surprised to see it opened a crack, she put her face to the crevasse between the door and the frame and looked out into the dark forest as rain pelted the trees. Source: Internet

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