crevasse

a deep cleft in glacial ice, chasm; a breach in a river levee

Not to be confused with:

crevice – a fissure or crack forming an opening

cre·vasse

(krĭ-văs′)

1. A deep fissure, as in a glacier; a chasm.

2. A crack or breach in a dike or levee.

intr. & tr.v. cre·vassed, cre·vass·ing, cre·vass·es

To develop or cause to develop crevasses.

[French, from Old French crevace, crevice; see crevice.]

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crevasse

(krɪˈvæs)

1. (Physical Geography) a deep crack or fissure, esp in the ice of a glacier

2. (Physical Geography) US a break in a river embankment

(tr) US to make a break or fissure in (a dyke, wall, etc)

[C19: from French: crevice]

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cre•vasse

(krəˈvæs)

n.

a fissure, or deep cleft, in glacial ice, the earth's surface, etc.

[1805–15, Amer.; < French; see crevice]

crevasse

Past participle: crevassed
Gerund: crevassing

Imperative
crevasse
crevasse

Present
I crevasse
you crevasse
he/she/it crevasses
we crevasse
you crevasse
they crevasse

Preterite
I crevassed
you crevassed
he/she/it crevassed
we crevassed
you crevassed
they crevassed

Present Continuous
I am crevassing
you are crevassing
he/she/it is crevassing
we are crevassing
you are crevassing
they are crevassing

Present Perfect
I have crevassed
you have crevassed
he/she/it has crevassed
we have crevassed
you have crevassed
they have crevassed

Past Continuous
I was crevassing
you were crevassing
he/she/it was crevassing
we were crevassing
you were crevassing
they were crevassing

Past Perfect
I had crevassed
you had crevassed
he/she/it had crevassed
we had crevassed
you had crevassed
they had crevassed

Future
I will crevasse
you will crevasse
he/she/it will crevasse
we will crevasse
you will crevasse
they will crevasse

Future Perfect
I will have crevassed
you will have crevassed
he/she/it will have crevassed
we will have crevassed
you will have crevassed
they will have crevassed

Future Continuous
I will be crevassing
you will be crevassing
he/she/it will be crevassing
we will be crevassing
you will be crevassing
they will be crevassing

Present Perfect Continuous
I have been crevassing
you have been crevassing
he/she/it has been crevassing
we have been crevassing
you have been crevassing
they have been crevassing

Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been crevassing
you will have been crevassing
he/she/it will have been crevassing
we will have been crevassing
you will have been crevassing
they will have been crevassing

Past Perfect Continuous
I had been crevassing
you had been crevassing
he/she/it had been crevassing
we had been crevassing
you had been crevassing
they had been crevassing

Conditional
I would crevasse
you would crevasse
he/she/it would crevasse
we would crevasse
you would crevasse
they would crevasse

Past Conditional
I would have crevassed
you would have crevassed
he/she/it would have crevassed
we would have crevassed
you would have crevassed
they would have crevassed

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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun

crevasse - a deep fissure

crack, scissure, cleft, crevice, fissure - a long narrow opening

crevasse

noun crack, abyss, chasm, cleft, fissure The climber had fallen down a crevasse on to a ledge.

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Translations

صَدْع جَليدي

rozsedlina

gletscherspalte

Gletscherspalte Spalte

halkeamarailo

crevasse

gleccserszakadék

jökulgjá

crepaccio

dziļa plaisa šļūdonī

bresprekk

rozsadlina

derin aralık

冰河的裂缝

crevasse

[krɪˈvæs] N → grieta f

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

crevasse

[krɪˈvæs] n → crevasse f

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crevasse

n → (Gletscher)spalte f

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crevasse

[krɪˈvæs] n → crepaccio

crevasse

(kriˈvӕs) noun

a very deep crack or split in a glacier.

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From that we may draw five good reasons for supposing that the lunar projectile, if ever launched, is now at the bottom of the Atlantic or the Pacific, unless it sped into some crevasse at that period when the crust of the earth was not yet hardened."

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Country in which there are precipitous cliffs with torrents running between, deep natural hollows, confined places, tangled thickets, quagmires and crevasses, should be left with all possible speed and not approached.

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Crevasses in the glacier-ice were far too frequent to permit of reckless speed even in a clear atmosphere, and then there were hideous precipices along the edges of which our way often led us.

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