释义 |
chasmy, a.|ˈkæzmɪ| [f. chasm + -y1.] 1. Abounding with chasms; full of breaks.
1797Monthly Mag. IV. 334 A strange, incongruous, chasmy compilation. 1866Carlyle Remin. (1881) II. 146 A strange high-lying chasmy place. 2. Of the nature of or like a chasm.
1793Wordsw. Descr. Sk. 249 They cross the chasmy torrent's foam-lit bed. 1876Mrs. Whitney Sights & Ins. xxv. 248 The passage plunged again into a chasmy shaft. 3. Void, abyssal.
1855Bailey Mystic, Who pours..from ample urn, The first effusion into chasmy space. |