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Entry 2 senses Webster, 1913

Chasm

/(kăz'm)/ · IPA /ˈkæzəm/
01 n. A deep opening made by disruption, as a breach in the earth or a rock; a yawning abyss; a cleft; a fissure.
  1. 1.
    A deep opening made by disruption, as a breach in the earth or a rock; a yawning abyss; a cleft; a fissure.
    “That deep, romantic chasm which slanted down the green hill.” Coleridge.
  2. 2.
    A void space; a gap or break, as in ranks of men.
    “Memory . . . fills up the chasms of thought.” Addison.