landslide
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (British, America) IPA: /ˈlænd.slaɪd/
landslide (plural landslides)
- A natural disaster that involves the breakup and downhill flow of rock, mud, water and anything caught in the path.
- A vote won by a wide or overwhelming majority.
- The candidate won by a landslide.
- French: glissement de terrain
- German: Erdrutsch
- Italian: frana, smottamento, slavina
- Portuguese: deslizamento, desabamento, derrocada
- Russian: о́ползень
- Spanish: corrimiento de tierra, deslave (Latin America), desprendimiento
- German: erdrutschartiger Sieg, überwältigender Sieg, Erdrutschsieg
- Italian: vittoria schiacciante, a valanga
landslide (landslides, present participle landsliding; past and past participle landslid)
- To undergo a landslide.
- 1921, The Illustrated London News (volume 158, page 356)
- So it landslid mightily, carrying off greens and fairways and all.
- 1921, The Illustrated London News (volume 158, page 356)
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