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precipice

noun as in face or brink of a rock, mountain

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Rope for lowering packs from precarious precipices and for hoisting bear bags.

By the fall of 2014, Darkside had reached the precipice of whatever passes for contemporary mainstream success.

Electron-capture supernovas result from stars that sit right on the precipice of exploding.

There’s a precipice where ads in VR almost feel like we’re headed toward Ready Player One territory, so it’s a trend worth watching.

From the top of the bridge, looking over the precipice to the creek below inspired terror, but seen safely from below, he wrote, the arch “is delightful in an equal extreme.”

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

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

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

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

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

Louis had no sooner reached the window, than he would have thrown himself from the flinty butments upon the top of the precipice.

His impetuosity called forth the expression, “He is a fanatic who will lead us to a precipice.”

Matt went down, with the motor-cycle on top of him, head and shoulders over the brink of the precipice.

In this way they may drive in a cut having the length of a hundred feet or more from the face of the precipice.

When Queeker came to try it he felt uneasy—sitting as he did so high, and looking down such a precipice as it seemed to him.

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On this page you'll find 21 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to precipice, such as: bluff, cliff, crag, height, steep, and sheer drop.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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