avalanche
a vuh lanch
- n a slide of large masses of snow and ice and mud down a mountain
- n a sudden appearance of an overwhelming number of things
the program brought an avalanche of mail - v gather into a huge mass and roll down a mountain, of snow
- Like a reluctant avalanche Franklin Roosevelt's Administration began to move.
- With more people in avalanche-heavy areas, attention is shifting to self-rescue.
- There are so many ways to die on that mountain, spanning the spectacular (fall through an ice shelf into a crevasse, get waylaid by an avalanche, develop cerebral edema from lack .