Synonyms of traversed

traversed

verb

past tense of traverse

as in crossed

to make one's way through, across, or over

the spider traversed the wall from end to end

Synonyms & Similar Words

• crossed
• followed
• navigated
• traveled
• walked
• covered
• tracked
• transited
• passed (over)
• coursed
• cut (across)
• rode
• hiked
• proceeded (along)
• went
• perambulated
• tramped
• peregrinated
• trod
• traipsed
• crisscrossed
• ran

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of traversed

To find their bodies, that afternoon Comella and other firemen traversed the steep, smoldering steel mountain using a series of ladders, a process not unlike the way trekkers negotiate the treacherous Khumbu ice fall at the base of Mount Everest. — Peter Wilkinson, Rolling Stone, 11 Sep. 2026

As the airplane air-conditioning worked overtime in the desert heat, the grooms traversed the tarmac numerous times to shuttle water and supplies to the horses. — Danielle Rossingh, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2026

As a young man, Francisco traversed it on horseback, eking out a living by draining resin from the towering pines. — Kate Linthicum, Los Angeles Times, 6 Sep. 2026

Sting is set to narrate a new documentary portrait of Nino Rota, the Italian composer whose music traversed the worlds of cinema and the concert hall, from Federico Fellini’s La Dolce Vita and 8½ to Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather. — Spin Staff, SPIN, 27 Aug. 2026

The film itself was an odyssey of a shoot, as the cast traversed multiple countries and territories—Scotland, Italy, the Western Sahara, Greece—in all types of weather. — Wisdom Iheanyichukwu, Vanity Fair, 17 Aug. 2026

But traffic through the key trade route remains a trickle of the 130-140 vessels that typically traversed during peacetime. — Alexander Smith, NBC news, 14 Aug. 2026

The bottom line An imperfect borrowing climate which has solidified thanks to an extended Fed rate pause will need to be traversed carefully. — Matt Richardson, CBS News, 31 July 2026

Around 100 commercial vessels traversed the strait on a typical day before the war. — Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN Money, 27 July 2026