Abyss
[ə'bɪs]
Definition
(noun.) a bottomless gulf or pit; any unfathomable (or apparently unfathomable) cavity or chasm or void extending below (often used figuratively).
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Definition
(n.) A bottomless or unfathomed depth, gulf, or chasm; hence, any deep, immeasurable, and, specifically, hell, or the bottomless pit.
(n.) Infinite time; a vast intellectual or moral depth.
(n.) The center of an escutcheon.
Typist: Loretta
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Gulf, gorge, great depth, bottomless gulf or pit.[2]. Hell, limbo, purgatory.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Gulf, profound, gorge, deep, pit, chasm, depth
ANT:Surface, cavity, depression, indentation
Editor: Omar
Definition
n. a bottomless gulf: a deep mass of water.—adj. Abyss′al.
Editor: Patrick
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of looking into an abyss, means that you will be confronted by threats of seizure of property, and that there will be quarrels and reproaches of a personal nature which will unfit you to meet the problems of life. For a woman to be looking into an abyss, foretells that she will burden herself with unwelcome cares. If she falls into the abyss her disappointment will be complete; but if she succeeds in crossing, or avoiding it, she will reinstate herself.
Checker: Ophelia
Examples
- There is more in it than thou dost guess, Conrade; thy simplicity is no match for this deep abyss of wickedness. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Never shall I forget the Duke's appearance as he sprang up and clawed with his hands, like one who is sinking into an abyss. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- How do heat and light travel through this vast abyss of space? Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- There was nothing else left to do; after that he would allow the enigma to drop into the abyss of undiscoverable things. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- May-- he began, standing a few feet from her chair, and looking over at her as if the slight distance between them were an unbridgeable abyss. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- Is it possible that you succeeded in climbing out of that awful abyss? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- She knew her life trembled on the edge of an abyss. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- I am not a fanciful person, but I give you my word that I seemed to hear Moriarty's voice screaming at me out of the abyss. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Oh, God, could one bear it, this past which was gone down the abyss? D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- And all the time he was like a man hung in chains over the edge of an abyss. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- I was swallowed up in an abyss of love in an instant. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- I feel as if I were walking on the edge of a precipice, towards which thousands are crowding, and endeavouring to plunge me into the abyss. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- The torrent, swollen by the melting snow, plunges into a tremendous abyss, from which the spray rolls up like the smoke from a burning house. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- Instead of sinking on the steps as I intended, I seemed to pitch headlong down an abyss. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- You feel as if you were at the bottom of some tremendous abyss, with all the world far above you. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Two tears, the parched tears of the old, rolled down her puffy cheeks and vanished in the abysses of her bosom. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
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