abyss
noun
a deep, immeasurable space, gulf, or cavity; vast chasm.
abysses
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pluralof abyss.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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At his debut press conference, he vowed to face down "multitudinous minefields and 30,000-metre abysses" in reforming China.
From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026
And while the play never explicitly explores its underlying theme—that music can help bridge the gaps, or the abysses, that divide people—the deft integration of story and song illuminates it naturally.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 30, 2026
Ripples of electronic feedback crest into peaks and valleys of stretched echoes, decayed into hollowed abysses.
From New York Times ● Apr. 14, 2022
Tux is philosophically speculative, delivering aphoristic riffs that reveal Kierkegaardian abysses in such daily trivialities as a campfire, and mini marshmallows in cocoa.
From The New Yorker ● May 28, 2019
It grows in so rare perfection only upon the highest and wildest rocks—mostly upon cliffs, over abysses many hundred feet in depth, where one false step would be fatal to him who gathers it.
From The Monk and The Hangman's Daughter by Ambrose Bierce
