Definition of impassable
: incapable of being passed, traveled, crossed, or surmounted
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Examples of impassable in a Sentence
The roads were made impassable by the flood.
the road was impassable until snowplows cleared it
Recent Examples of impassable from the Web
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In addition to numerous side streets, Curran said portions of major routes such as 41, 43, 45 and 137 became impassable due to water Wednesday.
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Rhodes Point is along Sheep Pen Gut, but the channel is impassable.
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The Madisonville branch of the St. Tammany Parish Library re-opened at 9 a.m. It had been closed due to high water making the surrounding roadways impassable to most vehicles.
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Santa Rosa County officials reported flooding had already made some roads impassable.
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The roadway is impassable, and DOTD stated Entergy is responding to the damage.
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With most of the businesses and residents living along the road, few tourists venture into the interior. Unceasing rain that damaged the support system rendered the Pfeiffer bridge impassable.
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Many of the western communities were left with impassable streets that looked like rivers, although most homes and businesses in those neighborhoods remained dry.
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And the party is still in real danger of hitting an impassable roadblock of its own making when lawmakers return to town after the Memorial Day recess.
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First Known Use of impassable
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: impossible to pass, cross, or travel over
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Definition of impassable for Students
: impossible to pass, cross, or travel … the forest road … led to impassable marshes where the paths had long been lost. — J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit
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