Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Intersected by crevasses; fissured.
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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
crevasse .
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Examples
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Gnarled, twisted, and crevassed, its deepest, darkest cave concealed a fragile moistening stalactite.
When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010
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The shore was even more remarkable seen close-to, a wide shining platform of boulder-strewn clay, fractured and crevassed as if by an earthquake, a bleak uncompromising shore.
She Closed Her Eyes 2010
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Gnarled, twisted, and crevassed, its deepest, darkest cave concealed a fragile moistening stalactite.
When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010
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He asks me to come to see the ruins of the home he built, leading the way through the crevassed maze of collapsed concrete blocks that hang above the filthy stream where pigs wade in the shallows and the women wash themselves.
Haiti survivor, Wilson Octaveus: 'This is my wife's head. It has been eaten by dogs' 2010
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Gnarled, twisted, and crevassed, its deepest, darkest cave concealed a fragile moistening stalactite.
When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010
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A heavily crevassed glacier at the edge of the polar plateau, about 20 miles long and 8 miles wide, draining the south part of the Mohn Basin and flowing northeast to enter the upper part of Amundsen Glacier just north of the mountain group consisting of Mounts Wisting, Hassel, Bjaaland and Prestrud.
Devil's Glacier 2009
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Then they surprised me with an account of a fearfully crevassed piece of surface that they had come upon, forty-six and a half miles from the station, where they had lost two dogs.
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On the way to the depot, about thirty geographical miles south of Framheim, we had the nasty crevassed surface that had been met with for the first time on the third depot journey in the autumn of 1911 -- in the month of April.
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I say fortunately, as Heaven knows what would have happened to us if we had been obliged to cross a crevassed surface in such weather as we then had.
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As I understand Shackleton's account, there can be no question of hauling the ponies over the steep and crevassed glaciers.
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