Abyss: alternatives and connections

Hell; the bottomless pit.

An opening; an open space; a gap, cleft, or chasm; a passage perforated; a hole; as, an aperture in a wall.

The Destroyer; -- a name used (Rev. ix. 11) for the angel of the bottomless pit, answering to the Hebrew Abaddon.

Without a bottom; hence, fathomless; baseless; as, a bottomless abyss.

A structure, usually of wood, stone, brick, or iron, erected over a river or other water course, or over a chasm, railroad, etc., to m…

The edge, margin, or border of a steep place, as of a precipice; a bank or edge, as of a river or pit; a verge; a border; as, the brin…

An empty, immeasurable space; a yawning chasm.

Having gaps or a chasm.

Of or pertaining to a chasm; abounding in chasms.

That which is deep, especially deep water, as the sea or ocean; an abyss; a great depth.

Of or pertaining to the deeper parts of the sea; as, a deep-sea line (i. e., a line to take soundings at a great depth); deep-sea lead…

To make deep or deeper; to increase the depth of; to sink lower; as, to deepen a well or a channel.

The state or quality of being deep, profound, mysterious, secretive, etc.; depth; profundity; -- opposed to shallowness.

That which is deep; a deep, or the deepest, part or place; the deep; the middle part; as, the depth of night, or of winter.

The depth of water necessary to float a ship, or the depth a ship sinks in water, especially when laden; as, a ship of twelve feet dra…

To require (so great a depth, as of water) for floating; -- said of a vessel; to sink so deep in (water); as, a ship draws ten feet of…

A row of soldiers ranged one behind another; -- in contradistinction to rank, which designates a row of soldiers standing abreast; a n…

Full of that which causes fright; exciting alarm; impressing terror; shocking; as, a frightful chasm, or tempest; a frightful appearan…