Definition of "crevassing" [crevassing]

• Present participle of crevasse. (verb)

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• "He analogized entropy -- psychic/physical/sexual -- in gorgeous, assaulting, crevassing paint limning bodies torqued by forces inside and outside of them."
• "Surface melting is greatly enhanced by surface crevassing, increasing the surface area many-fold."
• "The Dragon, which had resembled a slender windblown channel of ice from the air, was really a twomile-wide band of chaotic crevassing running for 40 miles down one side of the island."