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From land + slide .
landslide (plural landslides )
A natural disaster that involves the breakup and downhill flow of rock , mud , water and anything caught in the path.
2016 September 30, “13 dead, 20 still missing in China after typhoon landslides”, in AP News [1] , sourced from Beijing (AP), archived from the original on September 25, 2024 [2] :The landslides Wednesday in Zhejiang province, south of the financial hub of Shanghai, followed Typhoon Megi, which brought heavy rains and high winds to China and Taiwan this past week. [ …] The second landslide in Wencheng county killed five people, with one person still missing, an official at the county’s flood control office said Saturday.
A vote won by a wide or overwhelming majority .
The candidate won at 61% to 39%, which most people are calling a landslide .
( Can we verify (+ ) this sense?) ( loosely , sometimes proscribed ) A vote won by a narrow majority that is nonetheless portrayed as wide, for any of various sociopsychological reasons.
The candidate won at 52% to 48%, which many people are calling a landslide .
natural disaster
Arabic: اِنْهِيَار أَرْضِيّ m ( inhiyār ʔarḍiyy )
Armenian: սողանք (hy) ( soġankʻ )
Asturian: argayu m
Basque: luizi
Belarusian: апо́ўзень m ( apóŭzjenʹ ) , абва́л m ( abvál )
Bulgarian: свличане (bg) n ( svličane ) , свлачище (bg) n ( svlačište )
Burmese: မြေပြိုခြင်း ( mre-pruihkrang: )
Catalan: ensulsiada (ca) , esllavissada f , esllavissament m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 山崩 (zh) ( shānbēng ) , 滑坡 (zh) ( huápō ) , 地滑 (zh) ( dìhuá ) , 塌方 (zh) ( tāfāng )
Danish: bjergskred n , jordskred (da) n
Dutch: lawine (nl) m or f , aardverschuiving (nl)
Esperanto: terŝoviĝo
Finnish: maanvyöry (fi) , maanvyörymä (fi)
French: glissement de terrain (fr) m
Friulian: slac m
Galician: muracán m , freita f , nafreita f , barronca f , sulda f , fana f , esbarrondamento m
Georgian: მეწყერი ( mec̣q̇eri )
German: Erdrutsch (de) m
Alemannic German: Rufi f
Greek: κατολίσθηση (el) f ( katolísthisi )
Hebrew: מַפֹּלֶת (he) f ( mapólet )
Hindi: भूस्खलन m ( bhūskhalan )
Hungarian: földcsuszamlás (hu)
Indonesian: tanah longsor (id)
Irish: maidhm thalún f , sciorradh talún m
Italian: frana (it) f , smottamento (it) f , slavina (it) f
Japanese: 地滑り (ja) ( じすべり, ji-suberi ) , 山崩れ (ja) ( やまくずれ, yama-kuzure ) , 山津波 (ja) ( やまつなみ, yama-tsunami ) , 土砂崩れ (ja) ( どしゃくずれ, dosha-kuzure )
Kazakh: жылжыма ( jyljyma ) , көшкін (kk) ( köşkın )
Khiamniungan Naga: sǖtàih
Korean: 산사태(山沙汰) (ko) ( sansatae )
Ladin: roa f
Lao: ດິນເກື່ອນ ( din kư̄an )
Latin: lābīna f
Malay: tanah runtuh (ms)
Malayalam: മണ്ണിടിച്ചിൽ (ml) ( maṇṇiṭiccil )
Maori: horo , horowhenua
Maranao: anas , tempag , tobak
Norwegian: steinras n
Bokmål: jordras n , jordskred (no) n
Nynorsk: jordras n , jordskred n
Plautdietsch: Ieedrutsch f
Pohnpeian: engk
Polish: osuwisko (pl) n
Portuguese: deslizamento (pt) m , desabamento m , derrocada (pt) f
Quechua: lluqlla
Romanian: alunecare de teren f , alunecare de pământ f
Russian: о́ползень (ru) m ( ópolzenʹ ) , обва́л (ru) m ( obvál ) , лави́на (ru) f ( lavína )
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: клизиште n , о̀дрон m , о̀сулина f
Roman: klizište (sh) n , òdron (sh) m , òsulina (sh) f
Sinhalese: නායයෑම් ( nāyayǣm )
Slovene: plaz (sl) m
Spanish: corrimiento de tierra m , deslave (es) m ( Latin America ) , desprendimiento terreno m , argayo (es) m ( Spain ) , alud terrero m
Swedish: jordskred (sv) n
Tagalog: guho ng lupa , guhunlupa
Thai: ดินถล่ม ( din-tà-lòm ) , แผ่นดินถล่ม ( pɛ̀n-din-tà-lòm )
Tibetan: རྫ་རྡོ ( rdza rdo ) , ས་རུད ( sa rud )
Ukrainian: зсув (uk) m ( zsuv ) , о́повзень m ( ópovzenʹ ) , обва́л m ( obvál )
Uzbek: oʻpirilish (uz) , siljish (uz) , koʻchish
Vietnamese: lở đất (vi) , sạt lở đất
Welsh: tirlithriad m , cwymp tir m
vote won by a wide or overwhelming majority
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.