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
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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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The hope is that the service will also help alleviate crowding in the parking lot at the base of the falls, which can become impassable on busy weekends.
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There are piles of rubble so high that entire streets remain impassable.
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But Turer has his doubts that those relocations will take place: several structures are on the far side of the nearly-impassable Tigris River, and time might be too short.
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For example, there’s the Mobility Denial System, which used slippery foam to make area impassable to vehicles.
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IMPASSABLE Defined for English Language Learners
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: impossible to pass, cross, or travel over
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: 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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