Synonyms for cliff
klɪfcliff

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1. cliffnoun

   Synonyms:
   precipice

2. Cliffnoun

   A diminutive of the male given name Clifford.

   Synonyms:
   precipice

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1. cliff, drop, drop-offnoun

   a steep high face of rock

   "he stood on a high cliff overlooking the town"; "a steep drop"

   Synonyms:
   falloff, driblet, bead, drop cloth, lessening, drop, falling off, free fall, pearl, dip, fall, decrease, slack, drop-off, slump, drib, drop curtain

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1. • Geological Formation

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1. cliffnoun

   Synonyms:
   crag, precipice, high and steep rock

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1. cliffnoun

   Synonyms:
   crag, bluff, precipice

2. cliffnoun

   Synonyms:
   palisades (line of bold cliffs)

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1. List of paraphrases for "cliff":

   falaise, ravine, clive, bluff, bluffs, precipice, escarpment

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1. Jared Dearing:

   We're now also asking them to take part in the defense against foreign state actors. The cliff that is looming before us is we are failing to fund them appropriately for critical infrastructure in their own offices.

2. Jared Dearing:

   I have clerks that might have one or two staff members, and they are not digitally native. These are people who have been working on analog systems their entire career, and we're asking them to participate in what is national security, we're now also asking them to take part in the defense against foreign state actors. The cliff that is looming before us is we are failing to fund them appropriately for critical infrastructure in their own offices.

3. Laura Fortman:

   People are looking at a financial cliff ahead of them with absolutely no guarantee that there is any money on the other side of it.

4. Brad Pitt:

   They told me I only had 45 seconds up here, which is 45 seconds more than the Senate gave John Bolton this week, i'm thinking maybe Cliff Booth does a movie about it and in the end the adults do the right thing.

5. Sue Hendrickson:

   Anybody who had any idea what a fossil versus a rock (looked like) would have seen it, there (were) a lot of broken bones dribbling down (and) about 8 feet up the side of the cliff, there were three articulated vertebrae and a couple of other pieces of bone sticking out.