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Crevasse

//kɹəˈvæs// noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A crack or fissure in a glacier or snowfield; a chasm.
  2. 2
    a deep fissure wordnet
  3. 3
    A breach in a canal or river bank. US
  4. 4
    Any cleft or fissure. broadly

    "I moved my left hand to the small of her back, just above her belt-line and stroked the peach fuzz in her crevasse with my fingers."

  5. 5
    A discontinuity or “gap” between the accounted variables and an observed outcome. figuratively

    "[…] he laments that he can find no physiological phenomenon answering to his subject’s winning a race, or losing it. Between his terminal output of energy and his victory or defeat there is a mysterious crevasse. Physiology is baffled."

Verb
  1. 1
    To form crevasses. intransitive
  2. 2
    To fissure with crevasses. transitive

Etymology

Etymology 1

From French crevasse. Doublet of crevice.

Etymology 2

From French crevasse. Doublet of crevice.

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