English-French translations for avalanche

• avalanche
  Il n’y a pas eu d’avalanche de travailleurs. There was no avalanche of workers.
  Les craintes d’une avalanche de main-d’œuvre bon marché se sont avérées non fondées. Concerns about an avalanche of cheap labour have proved unfounded.
  Ou un saint-bernard, qui arriverait à trouver, enfoui sous l'avalanche, quelque chose de vivant ? Or how about a Saint Bernard that can detect signs of life below an avalanche?

Definition of avalanche

• A large mass or body of snow and ice sliding swiftly down a mountain side, or falling down a precipice
• A sudden, great, or irresistible descent or influx; anything like an avalanche in suddenness and overwhelming quantity; a barrage, blitz, etc
• To descend like an avalanche
• To come down upon; to overwhelm
• To propel downward like an avalanche

Examples

• The shelf broke and the boxes avalanched the workers.

Related words

• avalanche dog
• avalanche prone
• roof avalanche
• danger of avalanches
• risk of avalanches