SCREE


Meaning of SCREE in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

slope

I am stopped by an unstable-looking scree slope .

A rough scree slope was crossed to reach the foot of the considerably steeper conical crown of our peak.

The woman, in despair, slid all the way down Beinn a Chaolais, her heels creating the scree slope .

She couldn't see to the bottom of the scree slope .

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

An hour later and our gasping, sweaty bodies stumble across the boulders of the gully's scree fan.

He stood a little apart from them, kicking at the scree , and then he walked off across Goughdale between the crumbling towers.

If you have a color graphics card and a monochrome monitor, the underlining will not really appear on the scree .

In some places the topsoil had been eroded and we had to zigzag up on loose scree .

Rats criss-crossed the water like caterpillars, their tiny screes a mocking reminder of grypesh.

The scree had ripped a tyre; within minutes the jeep was thrashing that wheel to death.

The erosion has created a fan of scree which is rapidly encroaching on the Lovers' walk path.

This used to be a wonderful scree running down to Mosedale, which was like gliding down an escalator.

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