Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having a gap or chasm: as, a chasmed hill.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective rare Having gaps or a chasm.
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- adjective Having
gaps or achasm .
Etymologies
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Examples
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His eyes were sunken and deep lines chasmed across his face.
Father Swarat Matt Dennison 2010
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It is a mere gash cut by the torrent, twisted, walled, chasmed, weather stained with the most brilliant coloring, generally dark with shadow, but its utter desolation occasionally revealed by a beam of intense sunshine.
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The glorious inland view was composed of six ranges of forest-covered mountains, broken, chasmed, caverned, and dark with timber, and above them bald, grey peaks rose against a green sky of singular purity.
Unbeaten Tracks in Japan Isabella Lucy 2004
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His eyes were sunken and deep lines chasmed across his face.
The Dragons of Chaos Weis, Margaret 1997
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Go back to the hills which you climbed in boyhood, ascend their chasmed sides and note how even they have changed.
The New Education A Review of Progressive Educational Movements of the Day (1915) Scott Nearing 1933
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He indicated the mountain that rose, sharply cut and chasmed, back of the town.
The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Various 1915
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The lovely Deerfield Valley began to open on either hand, with smooth stretches of the quiet river, and breadths of grassy intervale and tableland; the elms grouped themselves like the trees of a park; here and there the nearer hills broke away, and revealed long, deep, chasmed hollows, full of golden light and delicious shadow.
Complete March Family Trilogy William Dean Howells 1878
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The lovely Deerfield Valley began to open on either hand, with smooth stretches of the quiet river, and breadths of grassy intervale and tableland; the elms grouped themselves like the trees of a park; here and there the nearer hills broke away, and revealed long, deep, chasmed hollows, full of golden light and delicious shadow.
Their Wedding Journey William Dean Howells 1878
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And yet higher forces have chasmed, veined, infiltrated, disintegrated, molded, bent the rocky strata like sheets of paper, and lifted the whole mass miles in air as if it were a mere bubble of gas.
Among the Forces Henry White Warren 1871
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It is a mere gash cut by the torrent, twisted, walled, chasmed, weather stained with the most brilliant coloring, generally dark with shadow, but its utter desolation occasionally revealed by a beam of intense sunshine.
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