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impassable | American Dictionary

impassable
adjective[ not gradable ]
us/ɪmˈpæs·ə·bəl/
(esp. of a road) impossible to travel on or over:
Mudslides made the coast highway impassable.

Examples of impassable

impassable
It being the height of the rainy season, the rivers were much swollen, and many of the swamps were almost impassable.
This part would be absolutely impassable in the rains.
The last few kilometres had to be covered on donkeys, along a path made almost impassable by the winter rain.
A good part of the area was impassable by armoured personnel carriers.
The availability of schools also involved well-known problems: great distances and impassable roads.
In the rainy season, the paths were virtually impassable.
After the war, not only was this road impassable, but the communities refused absolutely to resume this form of labour service.
Nature has set an impassable seal against it.
Expectations of bad weather, which would make the roads impassable, had driven the relief forces forward.
In seasons associated with too much precipitation, farm to market roads are rendered impassable thus influencing input and output supplies.
While lines were drawn, however, they did not always create impassable boundaries.
Some of these are very rocky and nearly 600 feet in depth, and are all but impassable for ponies.
The timing of the elections at the end of the rainy season, when bad roads are rendered considerably worse and often impassable, was dictated by tradition rather than practicalities.
Schools and clinics had crumbled, roads were impassable.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
The sea is now not impassable, and the deserts are now not impenetrable.
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