| Crevasse 1. (n.) A deep crevice or fissure, as in embankment\; one of the clefts or fissure by which the mass of a glacier is divided. 2. (n.) A breach in the levee or embankment of a river, caused by the pressure of the water, as on the lower Mississippi. Thesaurus Entries abysm, abyss, arroyo, box canyon, breach, break, chap, chasm, check, chimney, chink, cleft, cleuch, clough, col, coulee, couloir, crack, cranny, crater, crevice, cut, cwm, deep, defile, dell, depth, dike, ditch, donga, draw, excavation, fault, fissure, flaw, flume, fracture, furrow, gap, gape, gash, gorge, groove, gulch, gulf, gully, hole, hollow, incision, joint, kloof, leak, moat, notch, nullah, opening, pass, passage, pit, ravine, rent, rift, rime, rupture, scissure, seam, shaft, slit, slot, split, trench, valley, void, wadi, well, yawning abyss |