We are using cookies
This website uses cookies in order to offer you the most relevant information. By browsing this website, you accept these cookies.
This website uses cookies in order to offer you the most relevant information. By browsing this website, you accept these cookies.
Did you know?
You can double click on a word to look it up on TermGallery.
You can double click on a word to look it up on TermGallery.
Meanings of impassable in English
Spanish
infranqueable Incapable of being passed.
Related terms
Synonyms
Examples for "unpassable"
Examples for "unpassable"
1
It was a place among rocks, very steep, and unpassable for water.
2
And so they came to the swart arboreal precipice of the unpassable forest.
3
All 8 patients after radical operation had unpassable auditory tube.
4
The crossing would have been laborsome for a horse; for an automobile it was unpassable.
5
The unpassable walk itself was an avenue of approach.
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.
About this term
Frequent collocations
More collocations
Impassable through the time
Impassable across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
Ireland
Common
United States of America
Less common