precipices
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ə noun
1.
a cliff with a vertical, nearly vertical, or overhanging face.
2.
a situation of great peril: on the precipice of war.
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| —n | |
| 1. | a. the steep sheer face of a cliff or crag |
| b. the cliff or crag itself | |
| 2. | a precarious situation |
| [C16: from Latin praecipitium steep place, from praeceps headlong] | |
| 'precipiced | |
| —adj | |
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Word Origin & History
precipice
1598, "fall to great depth," from Fr. précipice, from L. præcipitium "a steep place," lit. "a fall or leap," from præceps (gen. præcipitis) "steep, headlong, headfirst," from præ- "forth" + caput "head" (see head). Meaning "steep face of rock" is recorded from 1632.
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Example sentences
For example, stock may be more comfortable along steep drops and precipices than their riders.
Now it moved in perpetual twilight under precipices as terrifying as the cliffs of dream.
Small inclusions of oak savanna, bluff prairie and wet meadows also occur on cliff precipices and alluvial wetlands.
To put roads and infrastructure up into these sometimes sheer mountain precipices.
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