ABYSS Definition & Meaning | 亚洲网紅露点

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abyss

[ uh-bis ]

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noun

a deep, immeasurable space, gulf, or cavity; vast chasm.
anything that seems to be without end or is impossible to measure, define, or comprehend:
the abyss of their grief and sorrow.
(in ancient cosmogony)
1. the primal chaos before Creation.
2. the infernal regions; hell.
3. a subterranean ocean.

Abyss.

abbreviation for

Abyssinia.
Abyssinian.

abyss

/ 蓹藞产瑟蝉 /

noun

a very deep or unfathomable gorge or chasm
anything that appears to be endless or immeasurably deep, such as time, despair, or shame
hell or the infernal regions conceived of as a bottomless pit

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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of abyss¹

First recorded in 1350鈥�1400; Middle English abissus, from Late Latin abyssus, from Greek 谩产测蝉蝉辞蝉 鈥渂ottomless,鈥� equivalent to a- a- ⁶ + 产测蝉蝉贸蝉 鈥渂ottom of the sea鈥�

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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of abyss¹

C16: via Late Latin from Greek abussos bottomless (as in the phrase abussos limn膿 bottomless lake), from a- ¹+ bussos depth

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鈥淎 failed loser desperately clinging to relevance as she spirals into the political abyss,鈥� White House spokesman Steven Cheung posted on X.

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After spending time in the divine abyss, we鈥檙e back in reality, ripped from the stratosphere and placed into one of life鈥檚 most mundane torments: the hygienist鈥檚 chair.

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As damaged heroes go, Mastroianni easily keeps our attention and triggers our sympathies for someone who resists the abyss, as near to it as she is.

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I glanced over to find the mother staring into the abyss of the fridge, experiencing some premonition of what grim fate was about to befall her daughter.

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He claimed universities were "nearing or toppling into an economic abyss".

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