Meaning

5 senses
  1. (literally)A pit with no visible bottom and apparently infinite depth.

  2. Hell.

  3. (figuratively)An endless resource or supply.

  4. (figuratively)A person with an apparently boundless appetite; an entity or problem which consumes seemingly endless resources.

    Fass ohne Boden

  5. 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 sentences
  1. He fell into the bottomless pit.

    Він упав до бездонної ями.

    ruОн упал в бездонную яму.

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  2. His stomach seemed a bottomless pit.

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  3. Tom's stomach is a bottomless pit.

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  4. Ziri was afraid to fall into a bottomless pit.

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  5. It's a bottomless pit.

    ruЭто бездонный колодец.

    deDas ist ein bodenloser Abgrund.

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Translations

5 languages
Deutsch
By meaning 1
person with boundless appetite; entity or problem which consumes endless resources:

Origin

From Revelation 9:1–12.

From Revelation 9:1–12.

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