chasm
noun
a yawning fissure or deep cleft in the earth's surface; gorge.
chasmed
-
a word derived from
chasm.
Example Sentences
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General Li Mi, 50, is the handsome, scarfaced Nationalist who controls the Chinese Nationalist guerrillas entrenched in the chasmed wilderness that is Burma's border with China.
From Time Magazine Archive
The glorious inland view was composed of six ranges of forest-covered mountains, broken, chasmed, caverned, and dark with timber, and above them bald, grey peaks rose against a green sky of singular purity.
From Unbeaten Tracks in Japan by Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird
Up vistaed hopes, I sped; And shot, precipitated Adown Titanic glooms of chasmed fears, From those strong Feet that followed, followed after.
From Poems by Francis Thompson
And yet higher forces have chasmed, veined, infiltrated, disintegrated, molded, bent the rocky strata like sheets of paper, and lifted the whole mass miles in air as if it were a mere bubble of gas.
From Among the Forces by Henry White Warren
Go back to the hills which you climbed in boyhood, ascend their chasmed sides and note how even they have changed.
From The New Education A Review of Progressive Educational Movements of the Day (1915) by Scott Nearing
