Definition of "scarp" []

• An escarpment. (noun)
• To cut or make into an escarpment. (verb-transitive)

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• "The scarp was a tangle of gullies, boulders, and ravines."
• "Halfway up the scarp was a dark horizontal line of bushes, something like a hedge."
• "Taiwan is looking down on the lovely Liyu Reservoir and peering up at the terrifying landslide scarp at Jiufen Ershan."