Definitions for abysses

abysses a·byss

Spelling: [uh-bis]
IPA: /əˈbɪs/

Abysses is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 84 anagrams from letters in abysses (abesssy).

Definitions for abysses

noun

  1. a deep, immeasurable space, gulf, or cavity; vast chasm.
  2. anything profound, unfathomable, or infinite:
  3. the primal chaos before Creation. the infernal regions; hell. a subterranean ocean.

Origin of abysses

1350-1400; earlier abisse, Middle English abissus Late Latin abyssus Greek ábyssos bottomless, equivalent to a- a-6 + byssós bottom of the sea

Examples for abysses

And my beloved Zimbabwe has sunk from a promising beacon into an abyss of greed and dictatorship.

Between this time and that I am now speaking of was an abyss.

But if one falls, that is no reason to throw oneself in the abyss.

But when patients open their jaws, he totters on the abyss and gets no steadying hand from God.

And when I made the abyss, which had a giant wave scene in it, those stopped.

Invoke not the unhallowed spirits of the abyss; invoke the spotless synod of the Gods.

At one point he fell down a crevasse and was left dangling in the abyss from a rope, up which he dragged his disintegrating body.

Kirkwood groaned with despair of his inability to fathom the abyss of his self-contempt.

Pierre could divine that an abyss was opening, and dared not insist.

But, Ali warns all that can change quickly if Anbar continues to crumble, “right now, we are looking into the abyss.”

Word Value for abysses
Scrable

10

Words with friends

10

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