Definition of Precipice

Precipice

A sudden or headlong fall.

A headlong steep; a very steep, perpendicular, or overhanging place; an abrupt declivity; a cliff.

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Abrupt, An, Cliff, Declivity, Fall, Headlong, Or, Overhanging, Perpendicular, Place, Steep, Sudden, Very

Precipice Quotations

We run carelessly to the precipice, after we have put something before us to prevent us seeing it.
Blaise Pascal

My errors will point to thinking men the various roads, and will teach them the great art of treading on the brink of the precipice without falling into it.
Giacomo Casanova

We are on the precipice of a crisis, a Constitutional crisis. The checks and balances, which have been at the core of this Republic, are about to be evaporated by the nuclear option. The checks and balances that say if you get 51% of the vote, you don't get your way 100% of the time. It is amazing, it's almost a temper tantrum.
Charles Schumer

Home life's great, man. The kids are great, happy and healthy. I've reached this sort of wonderful precipice.
Ryan Phillippe

We live in a pretty bleak time. I feel that in the air. Everything is uncertain. Everything feels like its on the precipice of some major transformation, whether we like it or not.
Sean Lennon

We are witnessing an enormous shift of collective consciousness throughout the world. We are at the precipice of great transformation within our culture and government.
Zachary Quinto

We are at the precipice of great transformation within our culture and government.
Zachary Quinto

At times, we forget the magnitude of the havoc we can wreak by off-loading our minds onto super-intelligent machines, that is, until they run away from us, like mad sorcerers' apprentices, and drag us up to the precipice for a look down into the abyss.
Richard Dooling

Pleasure is the carrot dangled to lead the ass to market; or the precipice.
Robinson Jeffers

He suddenly found himself on the precipice of utility.
J. F. Powers

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Precipice Translations

precipice in Dutch is afgrond
precipice in German is Abgrund {m}
precipice in Italian is abisso
precipice in Spanish is derrumbadero, precipicio

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