Noun: abysm
Pronunciation: (u’bi-zum)
Abysm meaning: A bottomless gulf or pit; any unfathomable cavity or chasm.
Quotations: Ambrose Bierce – The flabby wine-skin of his brain yields to some pathologic strain and voids from its un-stored abysm. The driblet of an aphorism.
William Shakespeare – What seest thou else, in the dark backward and abysm of time?
Sample sentences:
- They have touched the summits of daring and devotion, if they also sank into the deep abysms of shame, pity and disgrace.
- “It was horrible,” said Rajesh looking into the dark backward abysm of time.
- Her voice dropped. She dropped herself into some abysm of thought process.
- The flooring of this temple has crevices in it through which one can look down into the abysm.
- Raghu and I have been friends in the dark backward and abysm and we were still in a manner of speaking, friends.
- Such horrible and deadly conditions profoundly limit the development and growth of organic being in the abysm of ocean.
- It was his last salvation before he falls in the abysm.
- Abysms are only made darker by our thoughts.
- This makes their date one of incalculable antiquity; they are removed from us by a dark backward and abysm of time.
- I have been exploring the dark backward and abysm of time all day.