Usually means: Sudden massive snow slide downhill.
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General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. avalanche: Merriam-Webster
  2. avalanche, avalanche: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. avalanche: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. avalanche: Collins English Dictionary
  5. avalanche: Vocabulary.com
  6. Avalanche, avalanche: Wordnik
  7. avalanche: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. avalanche: Wiktionary
  9. avalanche: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. avalanche: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. avalanche: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. avalanche: Dictionary.com
  13. avalanche: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. avalanche: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  16. Avalanche: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. avalanche: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. avalanche: Rhymezone
  19. Avalanche: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. avalanche: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. avalanche: FreeDictionary.org
  22. avalanche: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. avalanche: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. avalanche: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  25. Avalanche (EP): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  26. avalanche: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  27. avalanche: Merriam-Webster

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. avalanche: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Avalanche (cryptography), Avalanche (electronics), avalanche: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. avalanche: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  2. Avalanche: Extragalactic Astronomy

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Avalanche, The Avalanche, avalanche: Urban Dictionary

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  2. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  3. National Weather Service Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See avalanched as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  A large mass or body of snow and ice sliding swiftly down a mountain side, or falling down a precipice.
noun:  A fall of earth, rocks, etc., similar to that of an avalanche of snow or ice.
noun:  (by extension) A sudden, great, or irresistible descent or influx; anything like an avalanche in suddenness and overwhelming quantity.
verb:  (intransitive) To descend like an avalanche.
verb:  (transitive) To come down upon; to overwhelm.
verb:  (transitive) To propel downward like an avalanche.

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