traverse
verb (used with object)
to pass or move over, along, or through.
untraversable
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a word derived from
traverse.
Example Sentences
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In its recall report, Waymo said vehicles traveling at higher speeds might slow but not stop when confronted with “a potentially untraversable flooded lane.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 30, 2026
Two quiet figures were within the room; two figures, equally still and impassive, equally removed by an untraversable distance from the teeming earth and all that it contains, though soon to lie in it.
From Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens
They would have effect limp at untraversable distances behind cause; they would keep destiny carefully abed and feed it upon spoon-victual.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 43, May, 1861 Creator by Various
In the first place," Jesson explained, "the city itself stands at the arm of the river, in a sort of cul-de-sac, with absolutely untraversable mountains on three sides of it.
From The Great Prince Shan by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim
Odovacar himself, again a fugitive, sped across the plain south-eastward to Ravenna, compelled like so many Roman Emperors before him to shelter himself from the invader behind its untraversable network of rivers and canals.
From Theodoric the Goth Barbarian Champion of Civilisation by Thomas Hodgkin
