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  • 121Interval — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Interval >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 interval interval interspace Sgm: N 1 separation separation &c. 44 Sgm: N 1 break break gap opening Sgm: N 1 hole hole &c. 260 …

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  • 122abysmal — a|bys|mal [əˈbızməl] adj [Date: 1600 1700; Origin: abysm abyss (14 20 centuries), from Old French abisme, from Late Latin abyssus; ABYSS] very bad or of bad quality = ↑terrible ▪ The reunion was an abysmal failure. >abysmally adv …

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  • 123abyss — [16] English borrowed abyss from late Latin abyssus, which in turn derived from Greek ábussos. This was an adjective meaning ‘bottomless’, from a ‘not’ and bussós ‘bottom’, a dialectal variant of buthós (which is related to bathys ‘deep’, the… …

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  • 124abyss — n. 1. Gulf, gorge, great depth, deep pit, abysm, depth, deep, chasm, profound. 2. Hell, limbo, purgatory, the pit, bottomless pit, the nadir, gehenna, fire unquenchable, the lake that burneth forever …

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  • 125abyss — *gulf, chasm, abysm …

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  • 126chasm — *gulf, abyss, abysm …

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  • 127void — adj 1 *empty, vacant, blank, vacuous Analogous words: exhausted, depleted, drained (see DEPLETE): *bare, barren: hollow, empty, nugatory, *vain 2 *devoid, destitute …

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  • 128abyss — n 1. void, gulf, gap, bottomless pit, abysm, yawning abyss; cavity, hole, pit, depth, shaft; gorge, canyon, ravine, chasm; cleft, fissure, crevice, crevasse; the deep, the depths, ocean depths, bottomless depths. 2. profundity, profoundness,… …

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