ravine
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- Regno Unito//ɹəˈviːn//
- Regno Unito//ˈɹæv(ɪ)n//
- Stati Uniti//ɹəˈvin//
- Stati Uniti//ˈɹæv(ə)n//
A deep narrow valley or gorge in the earth's surface worn by running water.
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A deep narrow valley or gorge in the earth's surface worn by running water.
Sometimes the earth stretched up towards them with peaks of mountains, sometimes it fell away in steep ravines, blue rivers sang to them as they passed above them, or very faintly came the song of breezes in lone orchards, and far away the sea sang mighty dirges of old forsaken isles.
He fell into a reverie, a most dangerous state of mind for a chauffeur, since a fall into reverie on the part of a driver may mean a fall into a ravine on the part of the machine.
Thirty feet below her, where the Persians were crashing through the brush, the streambed kinked to the left side of the ravine and ran under an enormous thorn tree with a thick base.
Etimologia
Borrowed from French ravin (“a gully”), from Old French raviner (“to pillage, sweep down, cascade”), from ravine (“robbery, rapine; violent rush of water, waterfall, avalanche; impetuosity, spirit”), from Latin rapīna (cf. rapine).
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Variante di ravinarcaicoAlternative spelling of ravin.
And sure since we were borne, / Ruine of one ravine, was there none gretter: […]
[H]e [Odo of Bayeux] had […] by rauine and extortion, raked together greate maſſes of Golde and treaſure, whiche he cauſed to be grounde into fine pouder, and (filling therewith dyuers pottes and crockes) had ſounk them in the Bottomes of Riuers, intending therwithall to haue purchaſed the Papacie of Rome: […]
[T]he rage and furie of the barbarous nations brake out into a flaming fire: and like as vvild beaſts, vvont to live of ravine and prey vvhen keepers be ſlacke and negligent, […] vvithout regard of life, run upon vvhole heards and flockes of cattell: […]
The marvellous ſpeedy grovvth of Birds that are hatched in Neſts, and fed by the Old ones there, […] ſeems to me an Argument of Providence deſigning thereby their preſervation, that they might not lie long in a condition expoſed to the ravine of any Vermine that may find them, being utterly unable to eſcape or ſhift for themſelves.
Etimologia
See ravin.
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Variante di ravinobsoletoObsolete spelling of ravin.
[…] I am the cauſe / His death vvas ſo effected: Better 'tvvere / I met the rauine Lyon vvhen he roar'd / VVith ſharpe conſtraint of hunger: better 'tvvere, / That all the miſeries vvhich nature ovves / VVere mine at once.
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Variante di ravinarcaicoAlternative spelling of ravin.
As God was able to ſaue the bodies of his ſeruantes, that they were not hurt in the fire, as he was able to keepe Ionas ſafe, in the whales bellie: ſo can he preſerue our bodies in the earth. Yea, much better, becauſe the fire naturally conſumeth, and the fiſhes bellie deſtroieth thoſe things which they rauine: but the earth naturally preſerueth that which is earthie.
[I]t is his [Satan's] Maſtery to ſpread an unſeen venome in the Bovvels, thence to diffuſe its ſelf through't, mix vvith the vital ſpirit, and convert that kindly heat vvhich ſhould animate, into thoſe vvild irregular flames vvhich ravine and conſume.
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- ravines
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- more ravine
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- most ravine
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- ravined
- participio passato
- ravined
- participio presente
- ravining
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ravine · A deep narrow valley or gorge in the earth's surface worn by running water.
raving · Wild, incoherent, or irrational talk.ravishing · Extremely beautifulraw · (of food) Not cooked.