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gulfnoun a part of a body of water that extends beyond the general shorelinewe dipped our feet in the warm waters of the gulf arm, bay, bight, cove, creek(chiefly British), embayment, estuary, firth, fjord(also fiord), inlet, loch(Scottish) harbor, port, road(s), roadsteadnarrow, sound, straitbayoubackwater, slough(also slew or slue) an immeasurable depth or spacethe gulf of understanding between the two men was too wide for them to ever get along abysm, abyss, chasm, deep, ocean cleft, crevasse, crevice, fissurecavern, hole, hollow, pitbreadth, expanse, extent, reach, spread, stretchblack hole, emptiness, nothingness, vacancy, vacuity, vacuum, void a narrow opening between hillsides or mountains that can be used for passagethe gulf was too wide to cross, so we had to hike down into it and go through it canyon(also cañon), col, couloir, defile, flume, gap, gill(British), gorge, gulch, kloof(South African), linn(chiefly Scottish), notch, pass, ravine, saddle abyss, chasm, cirque, cleft, crevasse, crevice, cwm(chiefly British), fissurecombe(also coombe or coomb, British), dale, dell, glen, hollow, shut-in, vale, valleybasin, floodplain, kettlearroyo, barranca(also barranco), coulee, draw, gully(also gulley), gutter, nullah, trench, trough, wadi, wash(West) an open space in a barrier (as a wall or hedge)a wide gulf in the defensive wall meant the city was in grave danger breach, break, discontinuity, gap, hiatus, hole, interstice, interval, opening, rent, rift, separation, void chink, cleft, crack, cranny, crevice, fissurenotch, slit, slot, splitinterspace, poreabyss, aperture, cavity, chasm, gape, orificefracture, rupture, severance, sundering water moving rapidly in a circle with a hollow in the centerthe doomed ship was sucked into the gulf and consigned to Davy Jones's locker gulfverbto cover with a floodwith the administration gulfed by so many real problems, it's absurd for the president to concern himself with this nonissue deluge, drown, engulf, flood, inundate, overflow, overwhelm, submerge, submerse, swamp avalanche, smotherovercome, overrunflow, flush, gush, pour, sluice, spout, spurt, streamdouse(also dowse), drench, soak, wet drain dehydrate, dry, parch in the 15th century |