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escarpado — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • craggy adj Characterized by rugged, sharp, or coarse features.
  • precipitous adj Steep, like a precipice
  • sheer adjective Thin enough to see through.
  • steep adj Rising or falling at a sharp angle, close to vertical.

Senses

escarpado is used for these senses in English:

  • craggy Characterized by rugged, sharp, or coarse features.
  • precipitous Steep, like a precipice
  • sheer Very steep; almost vertical or perpendicular.
  • steep Of a near-vertical gradient; of a slope, surface, curve, etc. that proceeds upward at an angle near vertical.

precipitous — full definition

  1. adj Steep, like a precipice
  2. adj Hasty; rash; quick; sudden

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