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  1. adjective Extending far downward below a surface: a deep hole in the river ice.
  2. adjective Extending far inward from an outer surface: a deep cut.
  3. adjective Extending far backward from front to rear: a deep walk-in refrigerator.

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  • "Lay Your Love On Me" is pop group BWO doing what they do best, and as a result has all the quality, catchiness, drama, slightly confusing ridiculous but "deep" - sounding lyrics, and even the "woah" s and "oh-oh" s we've come to love from the group. —  Poster Girl
  • The enhancements to the user interface are more than skin-deep, as they make FileMaker Pro —  Latest from Computerworld
  • Sorrow it is--deep, abiding sorrow; but it is not sin. —  Olive A Novel
  • Another moment and a miniature storm ruffled the pool: for a few seconds the heavings of the deep were awful; then, out jumped Big Blenny and tried to flee, but out jumped Little Blenny and caught him by the tail; round turned the big one and caught the other by the jaw Hallo, Disco! —  Black Ivory
  • Tromperie_--shall I no dip mon femme a sour myself vith quite as much bienséance as dat vulgar brute vat I see ducking de ladies yondere 306~~The naiads of the deep are a strange race of mortals, half fish and half human, with a masculine coarseness of manner that, I am told, has been faithfully copied from their great original, the once celebrated Martha Gun. —  The English Spy An Original Work Characteristic, Satirical, And Humorous. Comprising Scenes And Sketches In Every Rank Of Society, Being Portraits Drawn From The Life
 

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soft ·  dark ·  long

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Etymologies (4)

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  1. Middle English dep, from Old English dēop; see dheub- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Early modern English deepe; from Middle English deep, depe, from Anglo-Saxon deóp = Old Saxon diop, diap = OFries. diap, diep = Dutch diep = Middle Low German diep = Old High German tiuf, Middle High German G. tief = Icelandic djūpr = Swedish diup = Danish dyb = Goth, diups, deep; akin to dip, dop, and prob. to dive, dub, q. v. Hence depth, etc.
  2. from Middle English deepe, depe, from Anglo-Saxon deópe (= Old Saxon diopo, diapo = Dutch diep = Old High German tiefo, Middle High German tiefe, tief, German tief; cf. Danish dybt = Swedish djupt), adverb, deep, from deóp, deep: see deep, adjective
  3. from Middle English *depen, deopen (= OFries. diupa = Dutch diepen = Middle High German tiefen, leufen, German tiefen, ver-tiefen = Gothic (Moesogothic) *diupjan, in comp. gadiupjan, make deep); from the adjective: see deep, adjective, and cf. deepen and dip.
 

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