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cliff

[klif]

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noun

a high steep face of a rock.

Origin:
before 900; Middle English clif, Old English, cognate with Dutch, Low German, Old Norse klif

Related forms

cliff·like, adjective

Synonyms
bluff, promontory, ledge, crag.

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Cliff is always a great word to know.

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a fool or simpleton; ninny.

a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

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The path to becoming an independent educator does not have to lead off a cliff.

Now pharmaceutical firms are beginning to careen off the patent cliff.

The cliff borders the dome of layered deposits that sits atop the red planet's north pole.

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The path to becoming an independent educator does not have to lead off a cliff.

Now pharmaceutical firms are beginning to careen off the patent cliff.

The cliff borders the dome of layered deposits that sits atop the red planet's north pole.

Having a rock roll of a cliff and killing someone is a tragedy.

Hence, ca-zillions of near water cliff dwelling/breeding birds still exist today.

Bougainvillea climbs a trellis and grows against the cliff that rises at the back of the garden.

Marine tossing a puppy off a cliff has sparked fierce controversy and outrage online, leading to a military.

If nothing makes you happier than to be scaling a cliff face, rock climb.

It could also hover down a cliff face to examine geological strata.

Cliff himself is crying as soon as we're out the door.

Out came the vertebrae, pelvic bones, and-one by one-a series of ribs deeply embedded in the cliff side.

On the other side, the cliff falls a hundred feet to the waves crashing onto the rocks below.

And with manmade ones: centuries-old rock art and cliff dwellings.

Marine tossing a puppy off a cliff has sparked fierce controversy and outrage online, leading to a military investigation.

They embrace their experts all the way over the cliff.

The economies of the rich world seem to have fallen off a cliff.

The water falls as a result of an edge of a cliff or.

Someone needs to be the first lemming over the cliff.

One mile of uphill hiking puts you behind the falls cascading off a rock cliff.

Although the service is theoretically available almost worldwide, it may not work near high cliff walls or dense trees.

We're not headed down the yellow brick road, we're headed off a cliff.

Yet their party was in charge when the economy fell off a cliff.

Other canyons start where a spring sprouts from the base of a cliff as if out of nowhere.

It emerged from foliage on the side of an impossibly steep cliff and proceeded to clamber up the slope without much difficulty.

One environment included a flat plain that ended in a cliff with a soaring vista of the sky.

Only when you hit bottom can you stop and contemplate the cliff you must now climb.

There were prayer flags going all the way from one side of the cliff to the other.

Unless, of course, you refer to pushing relatives off a cliff.

We found one in archery, which takes the form of a small watermelon sitting on a cliff in the round pictured above.

If the crime leads to prison, future employment prospects fall off a cliff.

The inner burial complex was cut into a cliff and intended to accommodate the burials of all the priest's family members.

Despite giving us a good-old fashioned cliff hanger at the end of.

They'll jingle it a little to the left or right if they want me to avoid a rock or a cliff.

Knocking a zombie back off a cliff or into a pool of lava is enormously satisfying.

One bad step, and the mule team could run the wagons off a cliff.

They start as part of a headland or sea cliff connected to land.

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Dictionary.com Unabridged

noun

a male given name, form of Clifford.

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Collins

World English Dictionary

cliff (klɪf)

—n
	a steep high rock face, esp one that runs along the seashore and has the strata exposed

[Old English clif; related to Old Norse kleif, Middle Low German klēf, Dutch klif; see cleave²]

'cliffy

—*adj*

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Etymonline

Word Origin & History

cliff

O.E. clif, from P.Gmc. *kliban, perhaps from PIE base *gleibh- "to adhere, be attached."

Encyclopedia Britannica

Encyclopedia

cliff

steep slope of earth materials, usually a rock face, that is nearly vertical and may be overhanging. Structural cliffs may form as the result of fault displacement or the resistance of a cap rock to uniform downcutting. Erosional cliffs form along shorelines or valley walls where the most extensive erosion takes place at the base of the slope. Because of their greater gradient, cliffs are subjected to greater erosive action and tend to retreat more rapidly than other slopes.

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