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
Between nonentity and being yawns the untraversable gulf of infinity.
From The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life by William Rounseville Alger
It will, I trust, corrupt no reader irretrievably, to untraversable leagues beyond the last hope of redemption: but, even so, it is a frankly unethical performance.
From The Jewel Merchants A Comedy in One Act by James Branch Cabell
Man is a castaway upon a desert planet, isolated from other inhabited worlds—if there be any such—by millions of miles of untraversable space.
From Creative Chemistry Descriptive of Recent Achievements in the Chemical Industries by Edwin E. Slosson
Even of those who admitted, in theory, that Cathay lay to the west of Europe, most deemed the distance untraversable.
From The Discovery of America Vol. 1 (of 2) with some account of Ancient America and the Spanish Conquest by John Fiske
