Definitions for precipice

precipice prec·i·pice

Spelling: [pres-uh-pis]
IPA: /ˈprɛs ə pɪs/

Precipice is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 17 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 21 points.

You can make 117 anagrams from letters in precipice (cceeiippr).

Definitions for precipice

noun

  1. a cliff with a vertical, nearly vertical, or overhanging face.
  2. a situation of great peril:

Origin of precipice

1590-1600; Middle French Latin praecipitium steep place, equivalent to praecipit- (stem of praeceps) steep, headlong (prae- pre- + -cipit-, combining form of caput hea

Examples for precipice

The rebels were on the brink of a precipice, and extricated themselves.

Only a slender column of dust was still eddying at the edge of the precipice.

When Brecht penned these lines, his continent hovered on the precipice of a journey into hell.

At present I am on the precipice; without your hand I fall forever.

There was a sense of standing together on the precipice, but holding each other aloft by sheer will, conjoined by rage.

We always seem to be on the precipice of falling back into recession.

Do you not look on the past with a shudder at the precipice on which you stood?

I—I feel like a dizzy creature standing at the edge of a precipice.

Here we stand, on the precipice of another glorious summer—but what will it hold?

They are always suspended over a precipice, dangling by a slender thread that shows every sign of snapping.

Word Value for precipice
Scrable

17

Words with friends

21

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