ravine

Converse of object

• carve: The Gap is a ravine carved by glacial meltwater.
• cross: Just beyond the quarries the railroad crossed the deep wooded ravine of the Ham Woods Valley by an impressive viaduct.
• fill: The course is used to test Army vehicles, so after a hill the runners descend into a water filled ravine.
• form: Has the action of running water or the sea formed this deep ravine?
• overlook: Where railings overlooked the ravine with that mosque near the bottom of it another group stared intently down.
• reach: When the whole family had reached the ravine, they followed it up the hillside.

Adjective modifier

• wooded: The steeply wooded ravine descends to a private, secluded beach on the historic Helford River.
• steep: Here, the road swings round to the left on a sharp hairpin, with a steep ravine on your left hand side.
• rocky: At times the horses picked their way cautiously down rocky ravines; at others they cantered over open pastures.
• deep: Our first stop is the White Canyon, a deep ravine etched into the desert rock.
• narrow: The road was via a narrow ravine between densely wooded hills.
• dark: The screams of a wounded British officer abandoned at the bottom of a dark ravine are heard by a young Scottish subaltern.

Preposition: on

side: Built on a high mound with steep ravines on three sides, the first sighting of this castle is truly breathtaking.

Modifies a noun

• woodland: The Conservation Toolbox aims to draw together ' best practice ' for the long-term conservation of ravine woodlands.
• garden: The Gardens The steeply wooded ravine garden falls 200 feet to the Helford River.
• forest: On Guam, the colony inhabiting the eastern side of the Naval Magazine feeds over savanna grasslands dominated by Miscanthus and ravine forest.

Preposition: with

waterfall: Here the hotel, indeed the whole town, is built straddling a ravine with waterfalls.

Noun used with modifier

• sandstone: The sandstone ravine is now a Regionally Important Geological Site ( RIGS ).
• mountain: Abigail rode her donkey and came down toward the mountain ravine.
• limestone: This path leads into the second of our sequence of limestone ravines, Peter Dale.