avalanche vs salvo

avalanche

verb
  • To propel downward like an avalanche. 

  • The shelf broke and the boxes avalanched the workers. 

  • To come down upon; to overwhelm. 

  • To descend like an avalanche. 

noun
  • A fall of earth, rocks, etc., similar to that of an avalanche of snow or ice. 

  • A sudden, great, or irresistible descent or influx; anything like an avalanche in suddenness and overwhelming quantity. 

  • A large mass or body of snow and ice sliding swiftly down a mountain side, or falling down a precipice. 

salvo

verb
  • To discharge weapons in a salvo. 

noun
  • A salute paid by a simultaneous, or nearly simultaneous, firing of a number of cannon. 

  • An exception; a reservation; an excuse. 

  • A concentrated fire from pieces of artillery, as in endeavoring to make a break in a fortification; a volley. 

  • Any volley, as in an argument or debate. 

  • The combined cheers of a crowd. 

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