chasm

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And yet the flight went on and on, until Billie began to wonder if a chasm could be a hundred miles deep.

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  1. noun A deep, steep-sided opening in the earth's surface; an abyss or gorge.
  2. noun A sudden interruption of continuity; a gap.
  3. noun A pronounced difference of opinion, interests, or loyalty.

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  • There was no open dissension that the wicked world could take hold of, to glut its eager eyes with the spectacle of an unhappy marriage; but the chasm was there, a gulf of coldness, indifference, and distrust, which no foot of love would ever cross Angus Rothesay was a disappointed man. —  Olive A Novel
  • For a moment the chasm is a battleground of the elements, a fierce, titanic struggle. —  The Trail of '98 A Northland Romance
  • But now, the fire rushing quicker, blazing fiercer than before, as if determined not to lose its prey, curled its waves above our heads, smothering us with its heat and lurid smoke A few seconds more we spurred in agony; speed was life; the chasm was to be our preservation or our tomb. —  Travels and Adventures of Monsieur Violet
  • I have a frightful feeling urging me--almost beyond my powers of resistance--to fling myself forward over the edge of that dreadful chasm which is yawning to receive me. —  The Pirate Island A Story of the South Pacific
  • The ravine at one point was so narrow that the English and French guns waged duel across it, but on the British side the chasm was almost perpendicular From their eyrie perch on September 27, 1810, the English watched Massena's great host coming on. —  Deeds that Won the Empire Historic Battle Scenes
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  1. Latin chasma, from Greek khasma.

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  1. from Latin chasma, from Greek χάσμα, a yawning hollow, gulf, chasm, any wide space or expanse (cf. χάσμη, a yawning), from ✓ * χα, in χάσκειν, χαίνειν, yawn: see chaos.
 

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