A bottomless gulf or pit; any unfathomable (or apparently unfathomable) cavity or chasm or void extending below (often used figuratively)
Mythologic bottomless pit.
A deep, steep-sided rift.
1 Zimbabwe has taken several steps closer to the abyss in recent days.
2 We shall protect them from stepping into the endless abyss , she said.
3 He was looking past history and into the abyss of unadulterated truth.
4 The Belgian people live now in the abyss of want and woe.
5 His surprise made him stupid; he was in an abyss of astonishment.
6 And then Satan himself is chained and fastened securely in the abyss .
7 At the bottom of the abyss he had seen the immense ocean.
8 The key to the pit of the abyss was given to him.
9 The past flashes like lightning over the dark abyss of the future.
10 Traditions were piling up along with crowns and sceptres in the abyss .
11 And now you want thanks for landing in the abyss with us.
12 This woman had been in the deepest depths of this awful abyss .
13 There appeared to be no sound of water in the abyss below.
14 The lieutenant-colonel, Creighton, was for a time in the abyss of self-reproach.
15 It was poised high in space, far out over the dizzy abyss .
16 Surely and swiftly she glided towards the abyss of the religious wars.
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