crevasse.

A deep crack in a glacier or other large body of ice.

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Words that belong together

• glacial crevasse
• deep crevasse

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A crevasse opened across the route.

Snow concealed the narrow crevasse.

The climbers stayed away from the crevasse’s edge.

Usage notes

Primary category: environment. Forms: Singular crevasse; plural crevasses. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.