abyss
IPA: ʌbˈɪs
noun
- Hell; the bottomless pit; primeval chaos; a confined subterranean ocean.
- (frequently figurative) A bottomless or unfathomed depth, gulf, or chasm; hence, any deep, immeasurable; any void space.
- Anything infinite, immeasurable, or profound.
- Moral depravity; vast intellectual or moral depth.
- (with article) An impending catastrophic happening.
- (heraldry) The center of an escutcheon.
- (oceanography) The abyssal zone.
- (figurative) A difference, especially a large difference, between groups.
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Examples of "abyss" in Sentences
- We are now on the edge of the abyss.
- The soul enters into the lowest abyss.
- It is the lowest rank of demon in the Abyss.
- Cambodia was on the slippery slope to the abyss.
- The Abyss is something of an enigma throughout the entire series.
- Ghasts die in the light but can endure the twilight of the abyss.
- At the sounding of the fifth trumpet locusts ascend from the abyss.
- Knowledge has plunged into the abyss of decrepitude and destitution.
- The book begins with the yugoloth Inthracis, a denizen of the Abyss.
- Babau are the cunning and sneaky but powerful assassins of the Abyss.
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