avalanche 的 3 个定义
- a large mass of snow, ice, etc., detached from a mountain slope and sliding or falling suddenly downward.
- anything like an avalanche in suddenness and overwhelming quantity: an avalanche of misfortunes; an avalanche of fan mail.
- Also called Townsend avalanche. Physics, Chemistry. a cumulative ionization process in which the ions and electrons of one generation undergo collisions that produce a greater number of ions and electrons in succeeding generations.
av·a·lanched, av·a·lanch·ing.
- to come down in, or like, an avalanche.
av·a·lanched, av·a·lanch·ing.
- to overwhelm with an extremely large amount of anything; swamp.
avalanche 近义词
falling large mass; sudden rush of large quantity
更多avalanche例句
- Now I take 45 minutes for coffee and a little breakfast, check the avalanche report, and I’m out the door.
- No one wants to be caught under a snack or linen avalanche every time they open their pantry.
- These days, when something important or “newsy” happens, there’s an avalanche of content online that overwhelms people and leaves them less certain of what’s happening than before.
- After the Thomas Fire burned across hills around the town, rain led to a kind of muddy avalanche so powerful it carried entire boulders.
- After staff and guests are cut off from all access to the outside world by a devastating avalanche, resentments are laid bare as the corporate food chain unravels and office politics take a deadly turn.
- And Duke was a closet Nazi getting exposed by an avalanche of reporting.
- Horst Ulrich, a 72-year-old German on a trek with a group of friends, watched four Nepali guides swept away by an avalanche.
- It was an avalanche in lower Manhattan, reaching 2.4 on the Richter scale.
- And after enough snowflakes of conflict comes the avalanche.
- Many of the other Nepali Sherpas working on the mountain witnessed the avalanche as it covered their friends and fellow workers.
- However that may be, they were overtaken by an avalanche, the mother was buried beneath it, and the child saw her no more.
- When we cut out the foundation—they're afraid that the vibration will loosen the rest and start an avalanche.
- Sheppy was coming around the corner of the granary in his most sedate manner, when the pop-eyed avalanche almost stepped on him.
- One man of our acquaintance was caught by a descending avalanche and swept down the hill by the moving mass.
- At one particular place an enormous avalanche is an annual event, owing to the peculiar configuration of the gorges.