Term Gallery logo

Meanings of landslip in English

Portuguese
deslizamento de terra
Catalan
ensulsiada

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

        deslizamento de terra
        Usage of landslip in English
        1
        But there also had been a landslip, quite recent from the marks.
        Greenmantle
        2
        I think what we're looking at here is the result of a landslip.
        Empty mile
        3
        It comes a week after a major landslip near Durdle Door in Dorset.
        BBC
        4
        Services between London and Kent were also disrupted by a landslip.
        The Guardian
        5
        Residents were also evacuated north of Auckland in Whangaparaoa due to a landslip.
        Radio NZ
        6
        Athens, however, was on a landslip, falling; none could arrest it.
        An Essay on Comedy and the Uses of the Comic Spirit
        7
        An artificial landslip, cunningly contrived by the natives, had taken place.
        An Antarctic Mystery
        8
        There'll be mischief somewhere besides this; a landslip or two, more than likely.
        The Empire Annual for Girls, 1911
        9
        A second major arterial road was blocked by a landslip.
        Reuters
        10
        They reached the foot of the landslip an hour later.
        A Voyage to Arcturus
        11
        But then there came a loud crash and a thunder from behind the landslip.
        Aylwin
        12
        Heavy as the mare was, she felt the landslip, too.
        Sheila of Big Wreck Cove: A Story of Cape Cod
        13
        It was evident that he supposed that the landslip had unhinged Mademoiselle Brun's reason.
        The Isle of Unrest
        14
        An earthquake, a landslip, an avalanche, overtake a man incidentally, as it were-withoutpassion.
        Typhoon
        15
        Perhaps there's going to be a terrible landslip right now!
        The Saddle Boys of the Rockies; Or, Lost on Thunder Mountain
        16
        Homes on the cliff are at risk of sliding into the sea after a landslip.
        BBC
        About this term
        More collocations
        Translations for landslip
        Catalan
        ensulsiada
        Landslip through the time
        Landslip across language varieties
        United Kingdom
        Common