Translation for 'precipice' from English to Swedish

precipice

stup {n}

avgrund {u}

bråddjup {n}

• With Barmouth's geographical location between the mountains and sea, building locations were limited. However a donation of a rocky precipice above the town was accepted as the final choice.
• In the Gitxsan language, Gitsegukla roughly translates to "people living under the precipice" or more specifically under the "Segukla" or "sharp-pointed" mountain.
• Stilwell Hall was an immense, 52,000-square-foot (4,800 m2) building that stood on a precipice at the edge of the Pacific across from the former Fort Ord military installation.
• The western facade, strengthened by a controforse wall, nearly hangs over the precipice.
• The subspecies epithet, "praeceps", is a Latin word with two relevant meanings: 'precipice' (referring to its habitat), and 'danger' (referring to its threatened status).

• Yuhuangdong Grottoes, 10 kilometers away from the urban area, are distributed on a section of precipice about 300 meters long from east to west and more than 130 meters high.
• The rider went over the precipice but was miraculously saved.
• Jedd Beaudoin of Popmatters describes "Chaos and Earthquakes" as "a state of the personal union, a call to perseverance despite knowing that you stand on the precipice of utter destruction".
• The friar fulfilled his mission and threw the animal from the top of the hill. Since then, the Cartagena people call the precipice, the Salto del Cabrón, in allusion to the goat.
• It was again rebuilt in 1688, though retained its earlier tower and some remnants of the earlier castle. In 1729 the estate was relandscaped including infilling of a deep precipice between two hills.

• The sheer precipice of World's End and Baker's Falls are among the tourist attractions of the park.
• In the meantime, a wall designed by El Fratino had been completed by 1575, running straight up from the precipice above the end of the lower wall.
• From 1996 onward, Komu Vnyz came out from the precipice of financial difficulties.
• He climbed over the precipice of the Desert Corridor and discovered the last cave, the White Cave, in 1940.
• Precipice Peak is a [...] mountain summit located in Hinsdale County, of Colorado, United States. It is so named because of a very prominent precipice on the mountain's east face.

• YPCC considered rebuilding a hotel at Glacier Point, but the Park Service would not permit rebuilding at the same location; it would have to be placed further back from the precipice.
• The individual fingers, which are approximately [...] long fingers, are built over a precipice of about [...] depth.