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Another word for ravine

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Noun
      1. A deep gulch or ravine with sloping sides, often dry in summer.
      2. A streambed, often dry according to the season.
      3. A small stream, bayou, or canal.
      1. A deep fissure, as in a glacier; a chasm.
      2. A crack or breach in a dike or levee.
      3. To develop or cause to develop crevasses.
      1. A narrow crack or opening; a fissure or cleft.
      1. To cause to separate into pieces suddenly or violently; smash.
      2. To divide into pieces, as by bending or cutting:
      3. To separate into components or parts:
      1. An immeasurably deep chasm, depth, or void:
      2. In the book of Genesis, the primeval Chaos out of which earth and sky were formed.
      3. The abode of evil spirits; hell.
      1. A deep, steep-sided opening in the earth's surface; an abyss or gorge.
      2. A sudden interruption of continuity; a gap.
      3. A pronounced difference of opinion, interests, or loyalty.
      1. An opening in a solid structure or surface; a cleft or breach:
      2. A break in a line of defense.
      3. An opening through mountains; a pass.
      1. An elongated lowland between ranges of mountains, hills, or other uplands, often having a river or stream running along the bottom.
      2. An extensive area of land drained or irrigated by a river system.
      3. A depression or hollow resembling or suggesting a valley, as the point at which the two slopes of a roof meet.
      1. A deep gully cut by an intermittent stream; a dry gulch.
      2. A brook; a creek.
      1. A small ravine, especially one cut by a torrent.
      1. A narrow chasm with steep cliff walls, cut into the earth by running water; a gorge.
      1. A deep narrow passage with steep rocky sides; a ravine.
      2. A narrow entrance into the outwork of a fortification.
      3. The throat; the gullet:
      1. A deep ditch or channel cut in the earth by running water after a prolonged downpour.
      2. To wear a deep ditch or channel in.
      3. To form a deep ditch or channel.
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Sentence Examples

  • Casually, he began leading the horse along the ravine again.

  • It is situated on the river Natisone, which forms a picturesque ravine here.

  • of Kishinev, in a narrow ravine on the right bank of the Dnieper.

  • The lignite in this region also warms the ranchman's cabin, being easily mined where a seam is exposed in the walls of a ravine or on the side of a hill.

  • He led the horse around and they left the ravine, traveling at right angles to the path the Indians had taken.

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