ravine

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Up the bottom of this ravine was a difficult pass -- difficult on account of its steepness.

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  1. noun A deep narrow valley or gorge in the earth's surface worn by running water.

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  • What they'd so laboriously carried out of the ravine might be a corpse tomorrow in a morgue. —  Blood Lure
  • Above and beyond the ravine was a flat expanse of scrubland. —  dummyblind
  • She was a creature of optimism and she believed in her friends, but the blank far wall of the ravine was a mighty pessimistic thing. —  Dragon on a Pedestal
  • The wind down in the ravine was a light breeze mostly in our faces, the gully meandering northwest across a north wind. —  Steven Gould - Wildside (v2.1)
  • Turning to the right near the brow of the hill, I proceeded along a path which brought me to a causeway leading over a deep ravine, and connecting the hill with another which had once formed part of it, for the ravine was evidently the work of art. —  Lavengro The Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest
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gorge ·  chasm ·  precipice ·  glen ·  valley ·  creek ·  ridge ·  bluff ·  fissure ·  hillside ·  swamp ·  ditch

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ravine:   ravines

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  1. French, from Old French, violent rush, from Latin rapīna, rapine; see ravin.

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  1. from Middle English ravine, rauyne, from Old French ravine, rabine, a raging flood, a torrent, an inundation, a hollow worn by a torrent, a ravine, French ravine, ravin, a ravine; a particular use of ravine, violence, impetuosity, plunder, from Latin rapina, rapine, violence, plunder: see rapine, and cf. raven.
 

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