Перевод слова

Перевод: precipice

[существительное]
обрыв ; круча ; пропасть ; опасное положение

Тезаурус:

1. "Between the top of Skiddaw and the Lake of Bassenthwaite the numerous narrow openings are happily described by Housman "on looking down the profound precipice in almost any direction the eye recoils with horror.
2. "If the wheel comes off on Stitherstones Pass she may go over the precipice!" cried Jenny's daddy.
3. Happily, these include some of the most desperate cases, like Borringdon, a once-magnificent Elizabethan house outside Plymouth which was no more than a gutted shell clinging to a precipice, but today is a comfortable country house hotel.
4. Allow a full day or more, if you can spare it - there is a wealth of cliff, pinnacle and precipice to explore.
5. Walk on round to those cliffs and you come to what seem like utterly derelict sheds hanging on the edge of the precipice, stinking of goat: these are stacked with piles of skins for tanning, which goes on below in Brobdingnagian wooden barrels and enormous concrete troughs.
6. As the wheels skidded on the edge of the precipice a storm tried to hurl the coach and her family down the mountainside.
7. I think I even intended to gather up the sleeping bundle in my arms and take it away from this dreadful precipice.
8. Among the 15 entries are last year's winner, Eternal Credit, the 1989 winner Namoos and Precipice Lodge, recently successful over four miles at Larkhill.
9. I cannot express to you the charm that hangs about a mountain like Ben Each as the mists swathe its rocky sides; they rise, they fall, they whirl, they soar as on wings of light, they cast shadows, they give grand mystery, and anon reveal some hidden dell, some great bare precipice, or perhaps display a glowing patch of verdure.
10. He had gone only a few yards however when the horse hurled him over a precipice to his death.
11. A child leaning over the edge of a precipice.
12. Always the boy was about to plunge over the precipice.
13. It is partly sheer anger at the daily brutalities and humiliations; it was just such spontaneous personal vengeance that inspired a young Palestinian to force an Israeli bus over a precipice last summer, killing 14 people.