Usually means: Sudden, rapid snow or rock slide.
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  1. avalanches: Merriam-Webster
  2. avalanches: Collins English Dictionary
  3. avalanches: Vocabulary.com
  4. Avalanche's, Avalanches, avalanches: Wordnik
  5. avalanches: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. avalanches: Wiktionary
  7. avalanches: Dictionary.com
  8. avalanches: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Avalanches, The Avalanches, The avalanches: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. avalanches: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. avalanches: Legal dictionary

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  1. avalanches: Encyclopedia

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  1. avalanches: Medical dictionary

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  1. the avalanches: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See avalanche as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (avalanche)

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.
▸ Also see avalanche


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