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shrund

shrund is the ellipsis of bergshrund.

Meaning of bergshrund

Noun

bergshrund (plural bergshrunds)

  1. A large crack or crevasse in a glacier where the glacier is pulling away from the mountain.
    • The snow was extremely hard and there was a well defined path all the way up to the bergshrund.
    Synonyms:
    rimaye

Forms of shrund

pluralshrunds

Questions about shrund

What is shrund the ellipsis of?
Shrund is the ellipsis of bergshrund.

Words near shrund in the dictionary

  1. shrump
  2. shrumped
  3. shrumping
  4. shrumps
  5. Shrums
  6. shrund
  7. shrunds
  8. shrunk
  9. shrunk away
  10. shrunk back
  11. shrunk down

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Adapted from Wiktionary: shrund (page history and authors); bergshrund (page history and authors). 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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