Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of the nature of a chasm; chasm-like: as, a chasmal difference.
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- adjective Of or like a
chasm .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The Hebrew, chasmal, is from two roots, "smooth" and "brass" (compare Eze 1: 7; Re
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(Heb. chasmal) occurs only in (Ezekiel 1: 4,27; 8: 2) It is usually supposed that the Hebrew word chasmal (denotes a metal) and not the fossil resin called amber.
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We passed chasmal, gaping, yawning holes, some with the sounds of water gurgling in their depths.
Jay's Journal Dr. Beatrice Sparks 2010
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Days earlier Alec had called the countryside surrounding Yangshuo “Moonland,” an attempt, maybe, to convey its chasmal strangeness, the spectacular mass of pinnacles rising from an otherwise level river basin.
Heaven Lake John Dalton 2004
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Days earlier Alec had called the countryside surrounding Yangshuo “Moonland,” an attempt, maybe, to convey its chasmal strangeness, the spectacular mass of pinnacles rising from an otherwise level river basin.
Heaven Lake John Dalton 2004
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In their presence, we could not realize at once that Ronda itself was a mountain, a mere mighty mass of rock, cleft in twain, with chasmal depths where we saw pygmy men and mules creeping out upon the valley that stretched upward to the foot of the Sierra.
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Days earlier Alec had called the countryside surrounding Yangshuo “Moonland,” an attempt, maybe, to convey its chasmal strangeness, the spectacular mass of pinnacles rising from an otherwise level river basin.
Heaven Lake John Dalton 2004
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Days earlier Alec had called the countryside surrounding Yangshuo “Moonland,” an attempt, maybe, to convey its chasmal strangeness, the spectacular mass of pinnacles rising from an otherwise level river basin.
Heaven Lake John Dalton 2004
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Days earlier Alec had called the countryside surrounding Yangshuo “Moonland,” an attempt, maybe, to convey its chasmal strangeness, the spectacular mass of pinnacles rising from an otherwise level river basin.
Heaven Lake John Dalton 2004
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Days earlier Alec had called the countryside surrounding Yangshuo “Moonland,” an attempt, maybe, to convey its chasmal strangeness, the spectacular mass of pinnacles rising from an otherwise level river basin.
Heaven Lake John Dalton 2004
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