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LANDSLIP

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A slide of a large mass of dirt and rock down a mountain or cliff

Synonyms:

landslide; landslip

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Hypernyms ("landslip" is a kind of...):

slide ((geology) the descent of a large mass of earth or rocks or snow etc.)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "landslip"):

mudslide (a landslide of mud)

rockslide (a landslide of rocks)

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