Definitions for crevasse

crevasse cre·vasse

Spelling: [kruh-vas]
IPA: /krəˈvæs/

Crevasse is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 228 anagrams from letters in crevasse (aceerssv).

Definitions for crevasse

noun

  1. a fissure, or deep cleft, in glacial ice, the earth's surface, etc.
  2. a breach in an embankment or levee.

verb (used with object)

  1. to fissure with crevasses.

Origin of crevasse

1805-15, Americanism; French; see crevice

Examples for crevasse

It was a stony smile, humorless as a crevasse in a rock-face.

When we came abreast of the crevasse, we could see through it to the country beyond.

At one point he fell down a crevasse and was left dangling in the abyss from a rope, up which he dragged his disintegrating body.

There was a crevasse which was called the "Enfer du Plogoff."

Come to me on the edge of the crevasse nearest the place of most destruction!

Just then a row-boat came to the crevasse, and fearlessly headed into the opening.

Some days, she felt as though glaciers were buckling around her and a crevasse yawned beneath her.

With the crawling, for instance, Bradey had been on top of a snow bridge that crossed a crevasse.

The German wishes he had dropped the Frenchman into the crevasse.

The crevasse through which it issues is wild and romantic in the extreme.

Word Value for crevasse
Scrable

13

Words with friends

15

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