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Definition of landslide :
1. The land which slips down.
2. The slipping down of a mass of land from a mountain, hill, etc.
Synonyms:
lopsided, large, many, overwhelming, landslip, decisive
ruin (part of speech: noun)
collision, ruin, apocalypse, wreckage, failure, breakdown, break-up, wreck, debacle, shipwreck
wealth (part of speech: noun)
net worth, possessions, asset, prosperousness, riches, profit, income, plenty, wealth, capital, opulence, property, sufficiency, fortune, prosperity, worth, estate, affluence, plenteousness
superfluity (part of speech: noun)
glut, overabundance, overindulgence, deluge, inundation, surplus, overrunning, excessiveness, copiousness, overdose, superfluous, exorbitance, gratuitousness, avalanche, extravagance, redundancy, overkill, superabundance, outrageousness, immoderation
Usage examples:
- " That is glad to see you alive, for we saw the landslide bury you. - "Tom Swift in the Land of Wonders or, The Underground Search for the Idol of Gold", Victor Appleton.
- I had read in your newspapers that after your last election your ministers were buried alive- buried under a landslide, was it not? - "Further Foolishness", Stephen Leacock.
- Arterial blood of an army's heart outpoured the Grey Observer sees: A forest of France in thunder comes, like a landslide hurled off her Pyrenees. - "The Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith", George Meredith.