avalanche

A large mass or body of snow and ice sliding swiftly down a mountain side, or falling down a precipice.

• They were drinking from a fountain / That was pouring like an avalanche / Coming down the mountain

A fall of earth, rocks, etc., similar to that of an avalanche of snow or ice.

A sudden, great, or irresistible descent or influx; anything like an avalanche in suddenness and overwhelming quantity.broadly

• Yes, but she talked it away. She uses a whole language to herself. Her discourse is an avalanche of words, beneath which the hearers are overwhelmed.
• I stepped into an avalanche, it covered up my soul

To descend like an avalanche.intransitive

• Soon the sun’s warmth makes them shed crystal shells Shattering and avalanching on the snow-crust—
• As it happened, I had progressed only some few feet out onto the snow when a clean-cut section stripped off the surface and avalanched.

To come down upon; to overwhelm.transitive

• The shelf broke and the boxes avalanched the workers.

To propel downward like an avalanche.transitive

• The scuppers could not carry off the burden of water on the schooner’s deck. She rolled it out and took it in over one rail and the other; and at times, nose thrown skyward, sitting down on her heel, she avalanched it aft.
• Then another misfortune avalanched itself upon me, before even I had fully taken in the extent of the first.