Chasm
['kæz(ə)m] or ['kæzəm]
Definition
(n.) A deep opening made by disruption, as a breach in the earth or a rock; a yawning abyss; a cleft; a fissure.
(n.) A void space; a gap or break, as in ranks of men.
Editor: Stacy
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Breach, opening, cleft, fissure.[2]. Gap, hiatus, cavity, hollow.
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Definition
n. a yawning or gaping hollow: a gap or opening: a void space.—adjs. Chasmed; Chasm′y.
Checker: Michelle
Examples
- They both rose, and slowly paced a green natural terrace bordering the chasm. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Sit down, and tell me how you came alive out of that dreadful chasm. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- I looked at the sky; it was pure: a kindly star twinkled just above the chasm ridge. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- On they came, and in a moment the burly form of Tom appeared in sight, almost at the verge of the chasm. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Before them, at their very feet, was the brink of a black ragged chasm hidden by the thick grass. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- Their departure made another material change at Mansfield, a chasm which required some time to fill up. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- The sisters found themselves confronted by a void, a terrifying chasm, as if they had looked over the edge. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The bridge was a plank, and it crossed a chasm about four feet wide and two deep. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Phineas easily leaped the chasm, and sat down the boy on a smooth, flat platform of crisp white moss, that covered the top of the rock. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- He was falling through a gulf of infinite darkness, like a meteorite plunging across the chasm between the worlds. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- He must writhe on the edge of the chasm, suspended in chains of invisible physical life. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- A huge rock, falling from above, boomed past me, struck the path, and bounded over into the chasm. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Well, then, about that chasm. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Down he fell into the chasm, crackling down among trees, bushes, logs, loose stones, till he lay bruised and groaning thirty feet below. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- For a moment the vessel hovered motionless directly above the centre of the gaping void, then slowly she began to settle into the black chasm. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- It is such tremendous trifles, not the climbing of mountains and the bridging of chasms, that make the transcontinental line one of the wonders of the ages. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- On either side were deep chasms or mountain walls. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
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