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avalanche

noun as in falling large mass; sudden rush of large quantity

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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.

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On this page you'll find 15 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to avalanche, such as: barrage, deluge, flood, landslide, torrent, and inundation.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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