chasm
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- noun
- /ˈkæzəm/
- The hikers stood at the edge of the cliff, looking down into the vast chasm below.
- a deep chasm
- a wide chasm
- bridge the chasm
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Watch on YouTubeI'm like, it's there is a chasm in our nation.
- I'm like, it's there is a chasm in our nation.
- And there's a wide chasm between those two extremes.
- And it would, it concentrated down into this one narrow chasm.
- And it seems increasingly unsustainable that we have this massive chasm, right?
- And then she sees a cross like a a divide, like a chasm.
- Charlie Lynch's plight is a small example of the great chasm between the federal government and state law.
- And I think there's something really emotionally uplifting about communicating across the chasm of a species.
Examples
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The tears that run across this canvas are massive, dwarfed only by the chasm that's opened up between the two edges.
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And there's a wide chasm between those two extremes.
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So you can see there is quite a chasm in between these two different bodies of work.
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How can a man bridge such a chasm?
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There is something across the chasm at eight hundred meters, just to our left.
Fiction book (1997) -
I mean, you've never seen a chasm this deep.
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Toss the coin into the chasm.
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Second, at the invasion's outset, the chasm between the West and the Gulf states had been growing.
Academic text (1990) -
Think of our journey as a bridge of fire, gently swaying over a chasm of ignorance.
Fiction book (1999) -
There's a chasm ahead.
Synonyms
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1.0
An open space between two things, like a pass in hills
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4.8
A narrow crack or gap in solid things like rock and clouds
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7.0
A long narrow crack in rock or the ground
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8.6
A deep open crack in a glacier or in the ground
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Etymology
Chasm comes from the Greek word khasma, which means 'gap' and is linked to a verb that meant 'to yawn'. So imagine the earth 'yawning' open into a deep, gaping space — that's why a chasm is a very large, deep gap.