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Meanings of impassable in English

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infranqueable

Incapable of being passed.

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      1
      It was a place among rocks, very steep, and unpassable for water.
      The suppressed Gospels and Epistles of the original New Testamen...
      2
      And so they came to the swart arboreal precipice of the unpassable forest.
      The Book of Wonder
      3
      All 8 patients after radical operation had unpassable auditory tube.
      Pubmed
      4
      The crossing would have been laborsome for a horse; for an automobile it was unpassable.
      The Light of the Western Stars
      5
      The unpassable walk itself was an avenue of approach.
      A Matter of Proportion
      Usage of impassable in English
      1
      Main roads to Mogadishu are impassable, with large areas of crops damaged.
      Reuters
      2
      High winds and driving rain left a number of roads impassable yesterday.
      The Irish Times
      3
      Not in Egypt or in India a firmer or more impassable line.
      Essays — Second Series
      4
      Soon the report came in that the country was impassable for wheels.
      How Jerusalem Was Won / Being the Record of Allenby's Campaign i...
      5
      The rain came down in torrents, and the roads became almost impassable.
      With Lee in Virginia: A Story of the American Civil War
      6
      Some roads were left impassable by floods generated by the torrential rainfall.
      Independent.ie
      7
      The N81 remains impassable, with several metres of snow accumulated in places.
      The Irish Times
      8
      His Indians said that the rapids of the river above were impassable.
      France and England in North America, Part I: Pioneers of France ...
      9
      They had been detained by the almost impassable condition of the roads.
      A Lieutenant at Eighteen
      10
      That twelve thousand miles of sea looked to him a gulf impassable.
      Two Years Ago, Volume I
      11
      Roads already bad were washed into gullies; holes generally knee-deep became impassable.
      Four Years in Rebel Capitals / An Inside View of Life in the Sou...
      12
      The rainy season had made the roads impassable for all but horsemen.
      From Canal Boy to President; Or, the Boyhood and Manhood of Jame...
      13
      As she toured the country on her campaign trail, roads became impassable.
      The Guardian
      14
      The shrubbery was an impassable tangle, and the flower garden a wilderness.
      Warlock o' Glenwarlock: A Homely Romance
      15
      The Waal remained as impassable as if it were a dividing ocean.
      History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the ...
      16
      By degrees and instinctively the gulf widens between them-untilit becomes impassable.
      The Continental Monthly, Vol. III, No. V, May, 1863 / Devoted t...
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