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Meanings of
impassable
in English
Spanish
infranqueable
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Incapable of being passed.
unpassable
passable
Related terms
unclimbable
unsurmountable
unnavigable
untraversable
Spanish
infranqueable
Usage of
impassable
in English
1
Main roads to Mogadishu are
impassable
,
with large areas of crops damaged.
2
High winds and driving rain left a number of roads
impassable
yesterday.
3
Not in Egypt or in India a firmer or more
impassable
line.
4
Soon the report came in that the country was
impassable
for wheels.
5
The rain came down in torrents, and the roads became almost
impassable
.
6
Some roads were left
impassable
by floods generated by the torrential rainfall.
7
The N81 remains
impassable
,
with several metres of snow accumulated in places.
8
His Indians said that the rapids of the river above were
impassable
.
9
They had been detained by the almost
impassable
condition of the roads.
10
That twelve thousand miles of sea looked to him a gulf
impassable
.
11
Roads already bad were washed into gullies; holes generally knee-deep became
impassable
.
12
The rainy season had made the roads
impassable
for all but horsemen.
13
As she toured the country on her campaign trail, roads became
impassable
.
14
The shrubbery was an
impassable
tangle, and the flower garden a wilderness.
15
The Waal remained as
impassable
as if it were a dividing ocean.
16
By degrees and instinctively the gulf widens between them-untilit becomes
impassable
.
Other examples for "impassable"
Grammar, pronunciation and more
About this term
impassable
Adjective
Frequent collocations
almost impassable
impassable barrier
impassable gulf
become impassable
nearly impassable
More collocations
Translations for
impassable
Spanish
infranqueable
impasable
Impassable
through the time
Impassable
across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
Ireland
Common
United States of America
Less common