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# crevasse

«crevasse» in Mova's school dictionary: **A deep, narrow crack in thick ice, such as on a glacier** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (crevasse, crevasses)

### meaning for a pupil

A deep, narrow crack in thick ice, such as on a glacier. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crevasse/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in stories of snow and mountains, a danger that a traveller can fall into

### examples

- The climber nearly fell into a crevasse. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crevasse/#x1)
- The ice was split by a deep crevasse. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crevasse/#x2)
- Walk carefully near a crevasse. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crevasse/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «crevasse» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crevasse/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.