Precipice
['presɪpɪs] or ['prɛsəpɪs]
Definition
(n.) A sudden or headlong fall.
(n.) A headlong steep; a very steep, perpendicular, or overhanging place; an abrupt declivity; a cliff.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Cliff, crag, steep, abrupt declivity.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Cliff, crag, steep_descent, headlong, steep,[See ABYSS]
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Definition
n. a very steep place: any steep descent: a perpendicular bank or cliff.—adj. Precip′itous like a precipice: very steep: hasty: rash.—adv. Precip′itously.—n. Precip′itousness.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of standing over a yawning precipice, portends the threatenings of misfortunes and calamities. To fall over a precipice, denotes that you will be engulfed in disaster. See Abyss and Pit.
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Examples
- The precipice on the opposite side of the canyon is well perforated with the small holes they dug in the rock to live in. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- He ascends to the top of a precipice by walking up the sloping hill behind, and he thus becomes practically acquainted with the principle of the _inclined plane_. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- Was not the giant wave far higher than the precipice? Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- A solitary sea-gull winged its flight over our heads, to seek its nest in a cleft of the precipice. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- But he was still dizzy with the glimpse of the precipice they had skirted, and full of a new awe at the mystery of young-girlhood. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- The figure had plunged down the precipice, and she felt herself, as it were, attending on the body. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- Archer sat silent, with the sense of clinging to the edge of a sliding precipice. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- The most tremendous waterfall in our country is Niagara Falls, which every minute hurls millions of gallons of water down a 163-foot precipice. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- After battling for many tedious minutes with the precipice, the same scene presented itself to me, which had wrapt him in extatic wonder. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- 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.
- I got the horses stopped on the very brink of the precipice. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Perdita, continued Raymond, you do not see the precipice on which you stand. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- You, Eustacia, stand on the edge of a precipice without knowing it. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Thou wilt then keep straight forward--- A broken path--a precipice--a ford, and a morass! Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- At last he came to the great shallow among the precipices and slopes, near the summit of the pass. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- A being whom I myself had formed, and endued with life, had met me at midnight among the precipices of an inaccessible mountain. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- A dog, that avoids fire and precipices, that shuns strangers, and caresses his master, affords us an instance of the first kind. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
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