English > natural depression: 1 sense > noun 1, object| Meaning | A sunken or depressed geological formation. |
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| Synonym | depression |
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| Narrower | basin | A natural depression in the surface of the land often with a lake at the bottom of it |
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| bed, bottom | A depression forming the ground under a body of water |
| crater | A bowl-shaped depression formed by the impact of a meteorite or bomb |
| hole, hollow | A depression hollowed out of solid matter |
| lowland | Low level country |
| sinkhole, sink, swallow hole | A depression in the ground communicating with a subterranean passage (especially in limestone) and formed by solution or by collapse of a cavern roof |
| trench, deep, oceanic abyss | A long steep-sided depression in the ocean floor |
| trough | A narrow depression (as in the earth or between ocean waves or in the ocean bed) |
| valley, vale | A long depression in the surface of the land that usually contains a river |
| Broader | geological formation, formation | (geology) the geological features of the earth |
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| Opposite | natural elevation, elevation | A raised or elevated geological formation |
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| Spanish | depresión, depresión natural |
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| Catalan | depressió |
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