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crevasse

noun as in precipice

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Some days, she felt as though glaciers were buckling around her and a crevasse yawned beneath her.

With the crawling, for instance, Bradey had been on top of a snow bridge that crossed a crevasse.

At one point he fell down a crevasse and was left dangling in the abyss from a rope, up which he dragged his disintegrating body.

The path to the ancient site winds through a narrow, deep crevasse between the famous red rocks.

A crevasse was made in the levee above New Orleans flooding much of the city.

Or perhaps the Zab may have found some great crevasse in the mountains which gave it the opportunity that it needed.

A small crevasse opened near at hand and was a natural receptacle for rubbish.

A tunnel was driven into the sloping surface of the ice towards a crevasse about a foot wide.

It was a ticklish business recovering the sledge which hung suspended in the crevasse.

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On this page you'll find 20 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to crevasse, such as: abyss, chasm, fissure, cleft, gap, and hole.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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