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Definition of: abyss
(ə·bis′) noun
1. A bottomless gulf.
2. Hell.
3. Any vast depth; hence, a great moral or intellectual depth: an abyss of degradation and humiliation.
4. The lowest depths of the sea. [<L abyssus <Gk. abyssos < a- without + byssos bottom]
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