Definitions for avalanche

avalanche av·a·lanche

Spelling: [av-uh-lanch, -lahnch]
IPA: /ˈæv əˌlæntʃ, -ˌlɑntʃ/

Avalanche is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 17 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 20 points.

You can make 198 anagrams from letters in avalanche (aaacehlnv).

Definitions for avalanche

noun

  1. a large mass of snow, ice, etc., detached from a mountain slope and sliding or falling suddenly downward.
  2. anything like an avalanche in suddenness and overwhelming quantity:
  3. 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.

verb (used without object)

  1. to come down in, or like, an avalanche.

verb (used with object)

  1. to overwhelm with an extremely large amount of anything; swamp.

Origin of avalanche

1755-65; French avalantse, alteration (by association with avaler to descend rapidly) of laventse pre-Latin (perhaps Ligurian) *lavanca, or reshaping of Late Latin labīna landslide (derivativ

Examples for avalanche

Dorcas had no dreams so happy that such an avalanche could not sweep them aside.

He felt as if everything were slipping away from him, and he was trying to stand on an avalanche.

And after enough snowflakes of conflict comes the avalanche.

It was an avalanche in lower Manhattan, reaching 2.4 on the Richter scale.

With Platina, ca. 1474, an avalanche of cookery literature started.

They had a son named Nima, but Lopsang was soon swallowed by an avalanche on the Lhotse Face.

Many of the other Nepali Sherpas working on the mountain witnessed the avalanche as it covered their friends and fellow workers.

Horst Ulrich, a 72-year-old German on a trek with a group of friends, watched four Nepali guides swept away by an avalanche.

Fandor was too stunned by the avalanche of incidents to move.

What could have brought down upon him this avalanche of indignation and eloquence?

Word Value for avalanche
Scrable

17

Words with friends

20

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