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.
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Examples for "gap "
Examples for "gap "
1 The budget gap could reach 250 billion pesos this year, traders said.
2 I tell them it's a great year to take a gap year.
3 Falling U.S. demand thanks to the financial crisis narrowed the trade gap .
4 The information gap between state authorities and FINRA has existed for years.
5 That's a far better way of funding India's yawning current account gap .
1 Here in the mouth of the gorge the silence was almost oppressive.
2 He reckoned that they rode at least three miles in the gorge .
3 Proceeded down the creek to the gorge and camped; day very hot.
4 I don't want to do anything either, just continue to gorge on
5 The declivity marks the end of the precipitous gorge of the Niagara.
1 He has seen the movement of the sea in the chasm below.
2 As the three sat in silence, the gloom in the chasm thickened.
3 The chasm is not the only major split in the Brunt, however.
4 The chasm between the teams extended beyond quality, confidence and single-minded ambition.
5 For a moment she saw the chasm again, the bridge, the road.
1 The precipice grew in the darkness; the vertical rock had no ending.
2 Whatever it takes to prevent your beloved state falling off that precipice .
3 She blinked several times and saw they had halted on a precipice .
4 I came down the precipice , and lost my way in the bushes.
5 Once in a while I gave a look towards the ugly precipice .
1 The Path was in Ireland, a fissure in the cliff at Fairhead.
2 The superomedial major fissure manifests as a short, obliquely oriented straight line.
3 In 67 the great longitudinal fissure was traversed by the bullet obliquely.
4 Another attack came from the side where the original fissure had been.
5 The next blow opened the fissure and detached the block of rock.
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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