escarpment
2 synonyms for escarpment, grouped by meaning and by how common each one is.
Noun — A steep descent or declivity; steep face or edge of a ridge; ground about a fortified place, cut away nearly vertically to prevent hostile approach.
Synonyms
Rare, literary or technical
Precise, but they will stand out — check the sense before using one.
escarp
scarp
Etymology
Borrowed from French escarpement. By surface analysis, it is escarp + -ment.
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