Synonyms:
avalanche, roll_down
Meaning: gather into a huge mass and roll down a mountain, of snow
Usage examples
In short, all through December Mollie was weighed down under an avalanche of responsibility.
It, too, had an affinity for its own gravy and hid itself modestly under an avalanche of mashed potatoes.
The stones, adhering by no soil or fibrous roots of vegetation, rolled away from under our feet, and rushed down the precipice below with the swiftness of an avalanche.
"I tracked it up where the mountains hunch like the vertebrae of the world; I tracked it down to the death-still pits where the avalanche is hurled; From the glooms to the sacerdotal snows, where the carded clouds are curled.
Another fine trip was up, bright and early, by Avalanche Canyon to Glacier Point, along the rugged south wall, tracing all its far outs and ins to the head of the Bridal Veil Fall, thence back home, bright and late, by a brushy, bouldery slope between Cathedral rocks and Cathedral spires and along the level Valley floor.