cliff
/klɪf/ noun B1- A vertical (or nearly vertical) rock face. · , scar
- A point beyond which something abruptly fails or decreases in value, performance, etc.
Plural cliffs
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On that side a ridge of rocks ended in a sheer cliff which overlooked a stone-strewn slope.
A DOE blind in one eye was accustomed to graze as near to the edge of the cliff as she possibly could, in the hope of securing her greater safety.
SOME TRAVELERS, journeying along the seashore, climbed to the summit of a tall cliff, and looking over the sea, saw in the distance what they thought was a large ship.
But I cared a great deal for the much more formidable person who was behind him, the bosom friend of Moriarty, the man who dropped the rocks over the cliff, the most cunning and dangerous criminal in London.
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