To the north the towering scree-strewn slopes of Saddleback begin to draw nearer as we start the abrupt descent towards Keswick.
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Scree
//skɹiː//
Synonyms for "scree" (56 found)
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48 translations across 30 languages.
Albanian
1 entries- lëmaqe noun (loose stony debris on a slope)
Aragonese
1 entries- tartera noun (loose stony debris on a slope)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- ovuntu konusu noun (loose stony debris on a slope)
Belarusian
1 entries- асы́пак noun (loose stony debris on a slope)
Bulgarian
1 entries- сипей noun (loose stony debris on a slope)
Catalan
2 entries- claper noun (loose stony debris on a slope)
- tartera noun (loose stony debris on a slope)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 岩屑堆 noun (loose stony debris on a slope)
Czech
1 entries- osyp noun (loose stony debris on a slope)
Danish
1 entries- ur noun (loose stony debris on a slope)
Dutch
3 entries- puin noun (loose stony debris on a slope)
- puin noun (broken building material)
- puinhelling noun (loose stony debris on a slope)
Finnish
1 entries- louhikko noun (loose stony debris on a slope)
French
3 entries- clapier noun (loose stony debris on a slope)
- pierrier noun (loose stony debris on a slope)
- éboulis noun (loose stony debris on a slope)
German
4 entries- Gand noun (loose stony debris on a slope)
- Geröll noun (loose stony debris on a slope)
- Geröllhalde noun (slope)
- Schutt noun (loose stony debris on a slope)
Icelandic
1 entries- skriða noun (loose stony debris on a slope)
Ido
1 entries- taluso noun (loose stony debris on a slope)
Irish
3 entries- sceallach noun (loose stony debris on a slope)
- scileach noun (loose stony debris on a slope)
- screathan noun (slope)
Italian
1 entries- ghiaione noun (loose stony debris on a slope)
Malayalam
1 entries- ടാലസ് noun (loose stony debris on a slope)
Norwegian Bokmål
2 entries- talus noun (loose stony debris on a slope)
- ur noun (loose stony debris on a slope)
Norwegian Nynorsk
2 entries- steinrøys noun (loose stony debris on a slope)
- ur noun (loose stony debris on a slope)
Occitan
1 entries- clapàs noun (loose stony debris on a slope)
Polish
1 entries- piarg noun (loose stony debris on a slope)
Romanian
1 entries- grohotiș noun (loose stony debris on a slope)
Russian
1 entries- о́сыпь noun (loose stony debris on a slope)
Slovene
1 entries- melišče noun (loose stony debris on a slope)
Spanish
2 entries- canchal noun (loose stony debris on a slope)
- pedregal noun (slope)
Swedish
1 entries- taluskon noun (loose stony debris on a slope)
Turkish
1 entries- çarşak noun (loose stony debris on a slope)
Ukrainian
1 entries- о́сип noun (loose stony debris on a slope)
Welsh
2 entries- marian noun (loose stony debris on a slope)
- sgri noun (loose stony debris on a slope)
Sample sentences
16 total sentences available.
Struggling down the slope, There's not much hope. I begin to try to ride the scree But the rocks are tumbling all around me.
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Sprawled prone among the rocks, the team waited for a reply to their request to fire. […] Occasional rounds zinged off the scree, each with a different pitch.
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Acres of the industrial port had been reduced to desolation, half-walls, half-chimneys, crazy sticks of steel that looped up out of concrete scree. The temptation not to clear and rebuild must have been strong.
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