landslide
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
landslide (plural landslides)
- A natural disaster that involves the breakup and downhill flow of rock, mud, water and anything caught in the path.
- A vote won by a wide or overwhelming majority.
- The candidate won by a landslide.
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Translations[edit]
natural disaster
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vote won by a wide or overwhelming majority
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See also[edit]
- (natural disaster): avalanche, earthquake, mudslide
- (politics): shoo-in
Verb[edit]
landslide (third-person singular simple present landslides, present participle landsliding, simple past and past participle landslid)
- To undergo a landslide.
- 1921, The Illustrated London News (volume 158, page 356)
- So it landslid mightily, carrying off greens and fairways and all.
- 1921, The Illustrated London News (volume 158, page 356)