avalanche

avalanche englannista suomeksi

1. maanvyöry, lumivyöry, -vyöry

2. vyöry, ryöppy

3. vyöryä

0. Substantiivi

1. lumivyöry

2. maanvyöry

3. vyöry

3. Verbi

4. vyöryä

avalanche englanniksi

1. A large mass or body of snow and ice sliding swiftly down a mountain side, or falling down a precipice.

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2. A fall of earth, rocks, etc., similar to that of an avalanche of snow or ice.

3. A sudden, great, or irresistible descent or influx; anything like an avalanche in suddenness and overwhelming quantity.

4. (RQ:Landon Francesca Carrara)

5. (quote-book)|page=109|text=The apparent success of the City and South London triggered an avalanche of bills for Tube railways, and in 1892 a Joint Select Committee of Parliament set out some ground rules.

6. To descend like an avalanche.

7. (RQ:Twain Roughing It) We began to get into country, now, threaded here and there with little streams. These had high, steep banks on each side, and every time we flew down one bank and scrambled up the other, our party inside got mixed somewhat. First we would all be down in a pile at the forward end of the stage, nearly in a sitting posture, and in a second we would shoot to the other end, and stand on our heads. (..) ¶ Every time we avalanched from one end of the stage to the other, the Unabridged Dictionary would come too; and every time it came it damaged somebody.

8. {{quote-text|en|year=1916|author=Robert Frost|title=(poem)|Birches|lines=10–11|url=http://www.bartleby.com/119/11.html

9. {{quote-book|en|year=1959|author=Banks (mountaineer)|Mike Banks|title=Rakaposhi|location=New York|publisher=Barnes|year_published=1960|chapter=7|page=95|url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/003953328

10. To come down upon; to overwhelm.

11. {{quote-text|en|year=1961|author=William Alexander Deans|title=Muffled Drumbeats in the Congo|url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/007372142|chapter=9|page=95

''The shelf broke and the boxes avalanched the workers.''

12. To propel downward like an avalanche.

13. {{quote-book|en|year=1899|author=Robert Blatchford|title=Dismal England|location=London|publisher=Walter Scott|chapter=Signals|page=147|url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/006070118

14. {{quote-text|en|year=1912|author=Jack London|title=Son of the Sun (novel)|A Sun of the Son|section=Chapter Eight, IV|url=http://www.gutenberg.org/files/21971/21971-h/21971-h.htm

15. {{quote-text|en|year=1930|author=Arthur Gask|title=The Shadow of Larose|url=http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks11/1100711.txt|chapter=11

16. {{quote-book|en|year=1946|author=Mervyn Peake|title=Titus Groan|location=London|publisher=Eyre & Spottiswoode|chapter=Blood at Midnight

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