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abyss
1[ uh-bis ]
noun
- a deep, immeasurable space, gulf, or cavity; vast chasm.
- anything that seems to be without end or is impossible to measure, define, or comprehend:
the abyss of their grief and sorrow.
- (in ancient cosmogony)
- the primal chaos before Creation.
- the infernal regions; hell.
- a subterranean ocean.
Abyss.
2abbreviation for
- Abyssinia.
- Abyssinian.
abyss
/ əˈbɪs /
noun
- a very deep or unfathomable gorge or chasm
- anything that appears to be endless or immeasurably deep, such as time, despair, or shame
- hell or the infernal regions conceived of as a bottomless pit
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Origin of abyss1
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Example Sentences
Hollywood, too, became enraptured by the exotic abyss of Stanleyville.
But, Ali warns all that can change quickly if Anbar continues to crumble, “right now, we are looking into the Abyss.”
And my beloved Zimbabwe has sunk from a promising beacon into an abyss of greed and dictatorship.
But when patients open their jaws, he totters on the abyss and gets no steadying hand from God.
And when I made the Abyss, which had a giant wave scene in it, those stopped.
He sees no longer the brink of the abyss beside which the path of progress picks its painful way.
In the abyss of her heart, too deep at first for recognition, the girl loved him, and had loved him from the very beginning.
The path leading to it is over a small ledge of rock, skirted on each side by a yawning abyss.
The poor, tearful desire lays a pale hand on reason's lips and gazes wistfully into the mysterious abyss of the Great Silence.
She points to her pinions stretched over the abyss of primeval fire, her eyes blinded by its awful glare, and remains silent.
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