bottomless pit
A pit with no visible bottom and apparently infinite depthA pit with no visible bottom and apparently infinite depth.
» He fell into the bottomless pit.
Он упал в бездонную яму.
Он провалился в преисподнюю.
Він упав до бездонної ями.
Meaning
5 senses(literally)A pit with no visible bottom and apparently infinite depth.
Hell.
(figuratively)An endless resource or supply.
(figuratively)A person with an apparently boundless appetite; an entity or problem which consumes seemingly endless resources.
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An in-game hazard made up of a deep hole or void with no visible bottom, falling into which typically costs the player a life.
Examples
8 sentencesHe fell into the bottomless pit.
Він упав до бездонної ями.
ruОн упал в бездонную яму.
His stomach seemed a bottomless pit.
Tom's stomach is a bottomless pit.
Ziri was afraid to fall into a bottomless pit.
It's a bottomless pit.
ruЭто бездонный колодец.
deDas ist ein bodenloser Abgrund.
Translations
5 languagesBy meaning 1
Origin
From Revelation 9:1–12.From Revelation 9:1–12.
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Forms
plural: bottomless pits| Singular | bottomless pit |
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