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crevasse
/kɹəˈvæs/
noun 4verb 2
Collocations
3VERB + CREVASSE
falling, fell, fuzz
CREVASSE + NOUN
fingers
PREP.
down, in, into, with
Definitions
noun
1
A crack or fissure in a glacier or snowfield; a chasm.
2
A breach in a canal or river bank.
3
Any cleft or fissure.
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.
4
A discontinuity or “gap” between the accounted variables and an observed outcome.
[…] 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
To form crevasses.
2
To fissure with crevasses.
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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.
Wiktionary02
[…] 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 mysterio
Wiktionary03
The climber slipped on a rock and fell into a crevasse.
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The climbers perished after falling into a crevasse.
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The rope snapped and Tom fell down the crevasse.
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