Dictionary Entry
Hell; the infernal pit; the great deep; the primal chaos.
Origin
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Common Phrases
. abysmbetween abysmabysm darkabysm voidabysm backwardabysm blackabysm greatabysm dread
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Poetry examples for “abysm”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →I leaned against the mantel, sick, sick,
Thinking of my failure, looking into the abysm,
Weak from the noon-day heat.
Read full poem →For this fortune wanted root
In the core of God's abysm,--
Was a weed of self and schism;
Read full poem →That my steel'd sense or changes right or wrong.
In so profound abysm I throw all care
Of others' voices, that my adder's sense