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								extent downward or backward or inward the depth of the water
 depth of a shelf
 depth of a closet
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								degree of psychological or intellectual profundity
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								(usually plural) the deepest and most remote part
 from the depths of darkest Africa
 signals received from the depths of space
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								(usually plural) a low moral state
 he had sunk to the depths of addiction
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								the intellectual ability to penetrate deeply into ideas
 
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