landslide

 

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From land +‎ slide.

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈlænd.slaɪd/

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landslide (plural landslides)

1. A natural disaster that involves the breakup and downhill flow of rock, mud, water and anything caught in the path.
   • 2016 September 30, “13 dead, 20 still missing in China after typhoon landslides”, in AP News‎^[1], sourced from Beijing (AP), archived from the original on September 25, 2024‎^[2]:

     The landslides Wednesday in Zhejiang province, south of the financial hub of Shanghai, followed Typhoon Megi, which brought heavy rains and high winds to China and Taiwan this past week. […]
     The second landslide in Wencheng county killed five people, with one person still missing, an official at the county’s flood control office said Saturday.

2. A vote won by a wide or overwhelming majority.

   The candidate won at 61% to 39%, which most people are calling a landslide.

3. (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?)(loosely, sometimes proscribed) A vote won by a narrow majority that is nonetheless portrayed as wide, for any of various sociopsychological reasons.

   The candidate won at 52% to 48%, which many people are calling a landslide.

• (natural disaster): earthfall, landslip, mudflow

• (natural disaster): avalanche, earthquake, mudslide
• (politics): clean sweep, shoo-in

landslide (third-person singular simple present landslides, present participle landsliding, simple past and past participle landslid)

1. To undergo a landslide.
   • 1921, The Illustrated London News, volume 158, page 356:

     So it landslid mightily, carrying off greens and fairways and all.