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escarpment


escarpment

noun

Definition of ESCARPMENT

a steep wall of rock, earth, or ice <the castle sits atop an escarpment that for hundreds of years made it virtually invulnerable to attack>
Synonyms barranca (also barranco), bluff, crag, escarpment, palisade, precipice, scar, scarp

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