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Meaning of Crevasse | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2
kɹəˈvæs

Definitions

  1. A crack or fissure in a glacier or snowfield; a chasm.
  2. A breach in a canal or river bank.
    US
  3. Any cleft or fissure.
  4. A discontinuity or “gapbetween the accounted variables and an observed outcome.

Equivalents

العربية الأخدود فرضة
Deutsch Gletscherspalte
Français crevasse crevasse
Bahasa Indonesia jurang es krevas
Italiano crepaccio
Македонски кланец
Português crevasse
Русский трещина

Examples

“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.”
“[…] 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.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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