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crevasses

crevasses is the plural of crevasse.

Meaning of crevasse

Noun

crevasse (plural crevasses)

  1. A crack or fissure in a glacier or snowfield; a chasm.
  2. (US) A breach in a canal or river bank.
  3. (broadly) 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
  4. (figuratively) 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)

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Questions about crevasses

What is crevasses the plural of?
Crevasses is the plural of crevasse.

Words near crevasses in the dictionary

  1. crevalle jack
  2. crevalle jacks
  3. crevalles
  4. crevasse
  5. crevassed
  6. crevasses
  7. crevassing
  8. Creve Coeur
  9. Crevedia
  10. Crevedia Mare
  11. Creveling

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