0 a very bad situation that will not improve -- otchłań
[ usually singular ] The country is sinking into an abyss of violence and bloodshed.
1 a very deep hole -- przepaść, otchłań
I said at that time that it seemed to me that we were descending into an abyss.
There is no escape from that except into the abyss of a full statutory policy.
Last weekend we faced an abyss so deep we could see no bottom.
We all know where it leads: to the abyss and to horror.
As palliative care physicians we are often in the position of staring, along with our patients, into the mysterious abyss of life's most unanswerable and unknowable existential questions.
She was sliding into the abyss.
The bottomless space or the abyss in which perceptible matter is contained would suggest to us the notion of this phenomenon, resulting in the unlimited synonymity of space and infinity.
The ' abyss ' that allegedly separated this faction from the traditional right was, in fact, easily reconcilable, as the developments in the wake of the election show.
