Definitions for chasm

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Spelling: [kaz-uh m]
IPA: /ˈkæz əm/

Chasm is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 70 anagrams from letters in chasm (achms).

Definitions for chasm

noun

  1. a yawning fissure or deep cleft in the earth's surface; gorge.
  2. a breach or wide fissure in a wall or other structure.
  3. a marked interruption of continuity; gap:
  4. a sundering breach in relations, as a divergence of opinions, beliefs, etc., between persons or groups.

Origin of chasm

1590-1600; apocopated variant of chasma Latin Greek, equivalent to cha- (root of chaínein to gape; see yawn) + -(a)sma resultative suffix

Examples for chasm

The fourth reality is a technological gap in voter mobilization; more accurately the gap is a chasm.

Over the next few years, a chasm would open up between the Party and the KGB, culminating with the failed coup in August 1991.

When he reached the opening he dropped flat with his head over the chasm.

Tanner could not bridge the chasm between himself and his daughter.

In the middle, a chasm so wide that I have no idea, 20 years later, how we will ever bridge it.

I was writing a cover story for ‬Newsweek‪ about the chasm between white and black understandings of the Martin case.

The wind hurled them into a chasm, 117 and their bodies were never recovered.

Cautiously he drew back, still looking about for some means to cross the chasm.

The result in all three cases is a chasm between image and performance that magnifies the narrative of dashed expectations.

I ought, of course, to fling myself into the chasm like that Roman fellow; but, hang it!

Word Value for chasm
Scrable

12

Words with friends

13

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