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escarpment 音标拼音: [ɛsk'ɑrpmənt] n. 悬崖,断崖,绝壁 悬崖,断崖,绝壁 escarpment n 1: a long steep slope or cliff at the edge of a plateau or ridge; usually formed by erosion [ synonym: { escarpment}, { scarp}] 2: a steep artificial slope in front of a fortification [ synonym: { escarpment}, { escarp}, { scarp}, { protective embankment}] Escarpment \ Es* carp" ment\, n. [ Cf. F. escarpement.] 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. See { Scarp}. [ 1913 Webster] 65 Moby Thesaurus words for " escarpment": abatis, advanced work, balistraria, bank, banquette, barbed- wire entanglement, barbican, barricade, barrier, bartizan, bastion, battlement, bluff, breastwork, bulwark, casemate, cheval- de- frise, circumvallation, cliff, contravallation, counterscarp, crag, curtain, demibastion, dike, drawbridge, earthwork, enclosure, entanglement, escarp, face, fence, fieldwork, fortalice, fortification, glacis, loophole, lunette, machicolation, mantelet, merlon, mound, outwork, palisade, palisades, parados, parapet, portcullis, postern gate, precipice, rampart, ravelin, redan, redoubt, sally port, scar, scarp, sconce, steep, stockade, tenaille, vallation, vallum, wall, work
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