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How to pronounce “avalanche”
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Pronunciation guide for avalanche
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of avalanche with real speech in context.
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- Real speech example
- Why Climate Action Is Unstoppable — and “Climate Realism” Is a Myth
a 600-year-old city was completely destroyed by glacial avalanche.
- Definition summary
- A large mass or body of snow and ice sliding swiftly down a mountain side, or falling down a precipice.
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How to pronounce avalanche
Why Climate Action Is Unstoppable — and “Climate Realism” Is a Myth

a 600-year-old city was completely destroyed by glacial avalanche.
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “avalanche”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- A large mass or body of snow and ice sliding swiftly down a mountain side, or falling down a precipice.
- A fall of earth, rocks, etc., similar to that of an avalanche of snow or ice.
- (by extension) A sudden, great, or irresistible descent or influx; anything like an avalanche in suddenness and overwhelming quantity.
- [Verb]
- (intransitive) To descend like an avalanche.
- (transitive) To come down upon; to overwhelm.
- (transitive) To propel downward like an avalanche.
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