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chasm 音標拼音: [k'æzəm] n. 深坑,裂口 深坑,裂口 chasm n 1: a deep opening in the earth' s surfaceChasm \ Chasm\ ( k[ a^] z' m), n. [ L. chasma, Gr. cha` sma, fr. chai` nein to gape, to open wide. See { Chaos}.] 1. A deep opening made by disruption, as a breach in the earth or a rock; a yawning abyss; a cleft; a fissure. [ 1913 Webster] That deep, romantic chasm which slanted down the green hill. -- Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster] 2. A void space; a gap or break, as in ranks of men. [ 1913 Webster] Memory . . . fills up the chasms of thought. -- Addison. [ 1913 Webster] 115 Moby Thesaurus words for " chasm": abysm, abyss, aperture, arroyo, blank, box canyon, breach, break, broaching, canyon, cavity, chap, check, chimney, chink, clearing, cleavage, cleft, cleuch, clough, clove, col, coulee, couloir, crack, cranny, crater, crevasse, crevice, cut, cwm, deep, defile, dell, depth, dig, diggings, dike, disclosure, ditch, donga, draw, excavation, fault, fenestra, fissure, fistula, flaw, flume, fontanel, foramen, fracture, furrow, gap, gape, gash, gat, gorge, groove, gulch, gulf, gully, hiatus, hole, hollow, incision, inlet, interval, joint, kloof, lacuna, laying open, leak, mine, moat, notch, nullah, opening, opening up, orifice, outlet, overlook, oversight, pass, passage, passageway, pit, pore, preterition, quarry, ravine, rent, rift, rime, rupture, scissure, seam, shaft, skip, slit, slot, space, split, stoma, throwing open, trench, uncorking, unstopping, valley, void, wadi, well, workings, yawn, yawning abyss |
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