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landslide

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Etymology

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From land +‎ slide.

Pronunciation

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  • (UK, US) IPA(key): /ˈlænd.slaɪd/
  • Audio (US):(file)

Noun

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landslide (plural landslides)

  1. 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.
  2. A vote won by a wide or overwhelming majority.
    The candidate won at 61% to 39%, which most people are calling a landslide.
  3. (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.

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Verb

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landslide (third-person singular simple present landslides, present participle landsliding, simple past and past participle landslid)

  1. To undergo a landslide.
    • 1921, The Illustrated London News, volume 158, page 356:
      So it landslid mightily, carrying off greens and fairways and all.