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Synonyms for fissure

Grammar : Noun
Spell : fish-er
Phonetic Transcription : ˈfɪʃ ər

Définition of fissure

Origin :
  • c.1400, from Old French fissure (13c.) and directly from Latin fissura "a cleft," from root of findere "to split, cleave," from PIE *bhi-n-d-, from root *bheid- "to split" (cf. Sanskrit bhinadmi "I cleave," Old High German bizzan "to bite," Old English bita "a piece bitten off, morsel," Old Norse beita "to hunt with dogs," beita "pasture, food").
  • noun gap
Example sentences :
  • The least fissure in the latter would have inundated the channel.
  • Extract from : « Scientific American Supplement, No. 497, July 11, 1885 » by Various
  • It is the sound of our souls escaping from some fissure of the brain.
  • Extract from : « Melomaniacs » by James Huneker
  • He walked and walked, and came to a hill: in that hill was a fissure, and in the fissure stood a hut.
  • Extract from : « Russian Fairy Tales » by W. R. S. Ralston
  • She peered into the shadowy gulf, but could not see the bottom of the fissure.
  • Extract from : « Oh, You Tex! » by William Macleod Raine
  • It did not require long to find a spot where the fissure was easily leaped.
  • Extract from : « Two Boys in Wyoming » by Edward S. Ellis
  • In Fig. 16 is shown a front view of the blossom, showing this fissure.
  • Extract from : « My Studio Neighbors » by William Hamilton Gibson
  • The other had already disappeared; or else was killed, and had fallen down some fissure.
  • Extract from : « Left on Labrador » by Charles Asbury Stephens
  • From his position he could see about all there was to be seen in the fissure.
  • Extract from : « Young Wild West at "Forbidden Pass" » by An Old Scout
  • The other two turned, took the fissure at a bound, and fled away.
  • Extract from : « Chatterbox, 1905. » by Various
  • Emma placed her letter at the end of the garden, by the river, in a fissure of the wall.
  • Extract from : « Madame Bovary » by Gustave Flaubert

Antonyms for fissure

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