chasm

chasm
    n 1: a deep opening in the earth's surface
    

Chasm \Chasm\ (k[a^]z'm), n. [L. chasma, Gr. cha`sma, fr.
   chai`nein to gape, to open wide. See {Chaos}.]
   1. A deep opening made by disruption, as a breach in the
      earth or a rock; a yawning abyss; a cleft; a fissure.
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            That deep, romantic chasm which slanted down the
            green hill.                           --Coleridge.
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   2. A void space; a gap or break, as in ranks of men.
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            Memory . . . fills up the chasms of thought.
                                                  --Addison.
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115 Moby Thesaurus words for "chasm":
      abysm, abyss, aperture, arroyo, blank, box canyon, breach, break,
      broaching, canyon, cavity, chap, check, chimney, chink, clearing,
      cleavage, cleft, cleuch, clough, clove, col, coulee, couloir,
      crack, cranny, crater, crevasse, crevice, cut, cwm, deep, defile,
      dell, depth, dig, diggings, dike, disclosure, ditch, donga, draw,
      excavation, fault, fenestra, fissure, fistula, flaw, flume,
      fontanel, foramen, fracture, furrow, gap, gape, gash, gat, gorge,
      groove, gulch, gulf, gully, hiatus, hole, hollow, incision, inlet,
      interval, joint, kloof, lacuna, laying open, leak, mine, moat,
      notch, nullah, opening, opening up, orifice, outlet, overlook,
      oversight, pass, passage, passageway, pit, pore, preterition,
      quarry, ravine, rent, rift, rime, rupture, scissure, seam, shaft,
      skip, slit, slot, space, split, stoma, throwing open, trench,
      uncorking, unstopping, valley, void, wadi, well, workings, yawn,
      yawning abyss