depths
/dɛpθs/ noun B2- The deepest part. (Usually of a body of water.) · The burning ship finally sank into the depths.
- A very remote part. · Into the depths of the jungle...· In the depths of the night,
- The lowest point, all-time low, nadir. · to plumb the depths of despair· to stir someone to his depths
- The most severe or involved period. · in the depths of the crisis· in the depths of winter
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“I thank you from the depths of my heart,” said the young man, taking the spoon from the hands of Monte Cristo.
I’m not in the depths of despair this morning.
I’m in the depths of despair and I don’t care who gets head in class or writes the best composition or sings in the Sunday-school choir any more.
Anne looked at the wicked green depths below her, wavering with long, oily shadows, and shivered.
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