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# chasm

«chasm» in Mova's school dictionary: **a deep, wide crack or gap in the ground, rock or ice** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (chasm, chasms)

### meaning for a pupil

A chasm is a deep, wide crack or gap in the ground, rock or ice. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chasm/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in adventure tales, a dangerous gap that heroes must cross, often by a bridge or a fallen tree

### examples

- A deep chasm split the mountain in two. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chasm/#x1)
- The only bridge over the chasm was a fallen tree. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chasm/#x2)
- The glacier had deep chasms that glittered blue. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chasm/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «chasm» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chasm/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.