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Meanings of abyssal in inglés
Resembling an abyss in depth; so deep as to be unmeasurable.
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Examples for "seabed"
Examples for "seabed"
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Ireland is the only EU state without a territory-wide seabed mapping programme.
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Canada said earlier this month it would map its entire Arctic seabed.
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Tell them that we're about to open fire on the TK44 seabed.
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Yet that is what we are doing to the seabed round Britain.
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Investigators now plan to launch an underwater seabed search for aircraft wreckage.
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More than two billion years ago, sand settled on the ocean floor.
2
You should have seen us laughing down there on the ocean floor.
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It is also much flatter, only rising 10m above the ocean floor.
4
She watched the four trails as they rocketed over the ocean floor.
5
The Mariana trench is not a small crack in the ocean floor.
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Her arm twisted awkwardly behind her back, slamming into the ocean bottom.
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Did it now defend the ocean bottom, a home for slimfish and octopus?
3
An earthquake long ago lifted the ocean bottom and turned it into dry land.
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It must have sunk to the ocean bottom to be eaten by the fish.
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A line drawing of ocean bottom subsiding beside mountains and continent rising.)
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The sea bottom was rich with crawling and swimming and growing things.
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Colonies of them cluster from the sea bottom to the high-tide mark.
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To starboard, a prominent bulge on the sea bottom caught my attention.
4
Ye'll no convince owners that the sea bottom isna' wet and onsairten.
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Saul stood on the empty sea bottom, staring limply at the young newcomer.
Usage of abyssal in inglés
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Of the vast shell that ferries Lord Nodens across his abyssal kingdom.
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No removal of structures from the abyssal plain, on pain of ditto.
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Cold and quiet as abyssal fish, the grindylow merely watched her, flicking their tails.
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None of the lights of the earth can compare with those of this abyssal world.
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She tastes right to their minions, the abyssal polyps.
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The barge has cameras and floodlights, vacuum tubes designed to function in the abyssal depths.
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Perched just north of Monterey Bay's abyssal canyons, its surface is as impenetrable as one-way glass.
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He felt as if he were sinking into that abyssal underground pool of icy water, drowning.
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The abyssal deeps have two floors or roofs.
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Donnie and Gretchen lie awake on a pile of blankets... staring out into the abyssal canyon.
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Or was his opinion of Daniel's character now so abyssal that he simply felt nothing at all?
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A flood of chaos, of abyssal monstrosities.
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Her voice was the dull, howling roar of a black smoker bellowing out of the abyssal plain.
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The Hikurangi Channel, which is also fed by the Cook Strait Canyon, is a long meandering abyssal river.
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The researchers examined sediments from waters only 980 meters deep, which is much shallower than the abyssal plain.
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Granite chippings trickled over the edges, to be swallowed silently by the abyssal darkness which had been uncovered.
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