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What does precipitous mean?

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And most important, the precipitous rise in fatherless households has finally begun to level off.
But scientists have documented a precipitous decline of the Pacific leatherback in the past two decades.
And to the right was a precipitous mountain range with snowy caps and rocky cliffs.
This precipitous narrow track must have been a sobering welcome for the new settlers.
We could see some of them which had toppled over and rolled down the precipitous slopes and remained upside down at most nauseating angles.
Lying just over 14 km off the extreme south-west coast, Eldey's precipitous cliffs rise to a height of nearly 80 metres.

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