scree
pronunciation
How to pronounce scree in British English:
UK [skri:]
How to pronounce scree in American English:
US [skri]
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- Noun:
- a sloping mass of loose rocks at the base of a cliff
Word Origin
- scree (n.)
- "pile of debris at the base of a cliff," 1781, back-formation from screes (plural) "pebbles, small stones," from Old Norse skriða "landslide," from skriða "to creep, crawl;" of a ship, "to sail, glide," also "to slide" (on snow-shoes), from Proto-Germanic *skrithanan (cognates: Old English scriþan "to go, glide," Old Saxon skridan, Dutch schrijden, Old High German scritan, German schreiten "to stride").
Example
- 1. If this is the first time you are seen this stop error scree .
- 2. You look spellbound by your computer scree .
- 3. And as she came down the scree slope , she did this rolling thing which she does .
- 4. Jonathan made a scree of delight , the first sound he had made since he had left earth .