English to Swedish Meaning of crevasse - crevasse

Crevasse :

crevasse

noun

klyfta, reva, spricka, skreva, vila i frid

Crevasse :: crevasseCrevasses :: sprickor

← Cretonne

crevice →

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Definitions of crevasse in English

Noun(1) a deep fissure

Examples of crevasse in English

(1) When my wits returned, I was sprawled out full length on the snow with one leg dangling over the side of an open crevasse .(2) This time it's like crossing a widening crevasse in a glacier.(3) At risk of being stranded out on a glacier overnight by a fierce storm, they must make their way back to their camp over a narrow ice - bridge, which spans a deep crevasse .(4) Cut loose, he has plummeted into a deep crevasse , where against all odds he lands on a fragile ledge and survives.(5) Way below him yawns a bottomless crevasse in a glacier.(6) This expansion of the compressed river of ice causes crevasse fields to develop.(7) Incredibly, he survived, making his way from the crevasse on to the glacier and then crawling all the way back to base camp.(8) According to early reports, the rotor blade of the helicopter hit the rugged vertical surface of a crevasse over a remote glacier in the northern part of the province.(9) Deeper, deeper, we follow the crevasse until it opens onto a coral wall.(10) Crevasse splay deposits are floodplain deposits formed by the breaching of a levee, typically during flood events.(11) This tends to break the glacier apart into many crevasses on the glacier's surface (around 100 to 200 feet deep, generally).(12) The lake invades the glacier's deep chasms and crevasses , detonating thunderous explosions as great shards of ice detach and re-emerge as icebergs.(13) It is not a classically beautiful mountain, with a well-defined peak, but it has a multitude of cracks and crevasses and ledges, a lifetime of problems for a young climber.(14) Dogfish roam the area looking for prey and large crabs bury themselves in small crevasses and sand pockets.(15) Twenty unclimbed mountains, gaping crevasses , blizzards and temperatures plunging to 25 degrees below zero were just some of the challenges overcome by a Navy expedition to Greenland.(16) Like his fellow citizens, he took a lively interest in the great swellings of the Mississippi River, which periodically breached the levees in what were known as crevasses .

(1) cretin ::

kretin

Synonyms

Noun

1. chasm ::

klyfta

2. abyss ::

avgrund

3. fissure ::

spricka

4. cleft ::

klyfta

5. crack ::

spricka

6. split ::

dela

7. breach ::

brott

8. rift ::

reva

9. hole ::

hål

10. cavity ::

hålighet

Different Forms

crevasse, crevasses

Word Example from TV Shows

I've lost good men who fell into a CREVASSE they didn't see till they were in it.

Game of Thrones Season 2, Episode 6

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