Usually means: Sudden descent of rocks downhill.
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General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. rockfall: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. rockfall: Merriam-Webster
  3. rockfall: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. rockfall: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. Rockfall, rockfall: Wordnik
  6. rockfall: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. rockfall: Wiktionary
  8. rockfall: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. rockfall: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. rockfall: Dictionary.com
  11. Rockfall: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. rockfall: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. rockfall: Encyclopedia

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Illustrated Glossary of Geologic Terms (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Rockfall: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (rockfall)

▸ noun:  A quantity of rocks that has fallen from a cliff etc.

Similar:
stonefall, rockpile, crag, rock face, debris, rock, clast, clitter, scar, scree, more...

Opposite:
rock ascent, rock climb, rock scaling

Adjectives:
large, major, massive, huge, recent, small, great, serious, natural, spontaneous, significant

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Similar:
stonefall, rockpile, crag, rock face, debris, rock, clast, clitter, scar, scree, more...

Opposite:
rock ascent, rock climb, rock scaling

Adjectives:
large, major, massive, huge, recent, small, great, serious, natural, spontaneous, significant



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