escarpé — meaning in English
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English meaning
- craggy adj Characterized by rugged, sharp, or coarse features.
- precipitous adj Steep, like a precipice
- steep adj Rising or falling at a sharp angle, close to vertical.
Senses
escarpé is used for these senses in English:
- craggy Characterized by rugged, sharp, or coarse features.
- precipitous Steep, like a precipice
- scarp The steep artificial slope below a fort's parapet.
- steep Of a near-vertical gradient; of a slope, surface, curve, etc. that proceeds upward at an angle near vertical.
precipitous — full definition
- adj Steep, like a precipice
- adj Hasty; rash; quick; sudden