crevasse
/kɹəˈvæs/
crevasse noun: a crack or fissure in a glacier or snowfield; a chasm.
Noun
crevasse (plural crevasses)
- A crack or fissure in a glacier or snowfield; a chasm.
- A breach in a canal or river bank.
- Any cleft or fissure.
- I moved my left hand to the small of her back, just above her belt-line and stroked the peach fuzz in her crevasse with my fingers.2010, Scott R. Riley, A Lost Hero Found, page 111
- A discontinuity or “gap” between the accounted variables and an observed outcome.
- […] he laments that he can find no physiological phenomenon answering to his subject’s winning a race, or losing it. Between his terminal output of energy and his victory or defeat there is a mysterious crevasse. Physiology is baffled.1954: Gilbert Ryle, Dilemmas: The Tarner Lectures, 1953, dilemma vii: Perception, page 105 (The Syndics of the Cambridge University Press)
Verb
crevasse (third-person singular simple present crevasses, present participle crevassing, simple past and past participle crevassed)
- To form crevasses.
- To fissure with crevasses.
crevasse meaning in Tamil, Malayalam and Indonesian
crevasse in Tamil
- பனிப்பாறைப் பிளவு, பனிப்பாறைகளாகப் பிளவு செய்
crevasse in Malayalam
- chasm, abyss, fissure
- വിള്ളൽ, വിടവ്, ഹിമപ്പരപ്പിലുള്ള വിടവ്, പിളർപ്പ്, ദീർണ്ണം, ദാരിക
crevasse in Indonesian
- a crack or fissure in a glacier or snow field
- jurang es, krevas
Examples of crevasse in a sentence
- The mountaineer who fell down a crevasse had to be airlifted out.
- We could cryosequester the carbon in our garbage by throwing it in a glacial crevasse.
- Together they hiked until they came upon a crevasse that was too wide to leap.
Forms of crevasse
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | crevasses |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | crevasses |
| present participle | crevassing |
| past participle | crevassed |
| past | crevassed |
Origin of crevasse
From French crevasse. Doublet of crevice.
Words that rhyme with crevasse
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- Corinthian brass
- cuirass
- en masse
- frass
- Lefkas
- madras
- morass
- Pendergrass
- volte-face
- wass
- world-class
- adder's grass
- alas
- asse
- bamboo grass
- chasse
- das
- dass
- dogtooth grass
- flyaway grass
- hey pass
- Inner Brass
- khalass
- khalassed
- lac
- lift pass
- low mass
- Neptune grass
- outclass
- Outer Brass
- Ratass
- rockmass
- saas
- shass
- tass
- tasse
- thass
- wassed
- wrasse
Questions about crevasse
- What does crevasse mean?
- Crevasse means a crack or fissure in a glacier or snowfield; a chasm.
- What is crevasse in Tamil?
- Crevasse in Tamil is பனிப்பாறைப் பிளவு, பனிப்பாறைகளாகப் பிளவு செய். See Crevasse meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is crevasse?
- Crevasse can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce crevasse?
- Crevasse is pronounced /kɹəˈvæs/.
- What is the plural of crevasse?
- The plural of crevasse is crevasses.
Words near crevasse in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: crevasse (page history and authors); crevasse (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); crevasse (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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