Traverse

//tɹəˈvɝs//

Synonyms for "traverse" (202 found)

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Closest matches (41)

Strong matches (60)

Related words (101)

Related word relations

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7 relation types

More general

13 entries

beam continue contradict contravene cover crossing crosspiece extend negate pass travel traveling travelling

Synonyms

5 entries

crisscross cross transom trave traversal

Related terms

15 entries

Grand Traverse County Grand Traverse disease Little Traverse Traverse City Traverse County Tyrolean traverse girdle traverse hand traverse traversal traverse drill traverse jury traverse sailing traverse table traversive travis

derived

2 entries

traverse drill traversing platform

has context

13 entries

architecture artillery carpentry climbing computing engineering geometry law legal military nautical skiing surveying

manner of

1 entries

pass

related to

36 entries

across ascent athwart crosswise defensive denial deny descent enfilade explore face formal gallery gradient grain grand traverse county

Showing 16 of 36 words.

Translations

67 translations across 29 languages.

Ancient Greek

1 entries

περάω verb (to travel across, often under difficult conditions)

Arabic

3 entries

اِجْتَازَ verb (to travel across, often under difficult conditions)
عدى verb (to travel across, often under difficult conditions)
عَبَرَ verb (to travel across, often under difficult conditions)

Bulgarian

1 entries

прекосявам verb (to travel across, often under difficult conditions)

Catalan

1 entries

recórrer verb (to travel across, often under difficult conditions)

Chinese Mandarin

1 entries

遍歷 /遍历 verb (to travel across, often under difficult conditions)

Czech

3 entries

přejet verb (to travel across, often under difficult conditions)
přejít verb (to travel across, often under difficult conditions)
překročit verb (to travel across, often under difficult conditions)

Danish

2 entries

at traversere verb (to travel across, often under difficult conditions)
at traversere verb (computing: to visit all parts of; to explore thoroughly)

Dutch

2 entries

doorkruisen verb (to travel across, often under difficult conditions)
doorreizen verb (to travel across, often under difficult conditions)

Esperanto

1 entries

transiri verb (to travel across, often under difficult conditions)

Finnish

2 entries

kulkea verb (to travel across, often under difficult conditions)
läpikäydä verb (computing: to visit all parts of; to explore thoroughly)

French

2 entries

franchir verb (to travel across, often under difficult conditions)
traverser verb (to travel across, often under difficult conditions)

German

3 entries

durchkreuzen verb (to travel across, often under difficult conditions)
durchqueren verb (to travel across, often under difficult conditions)
überqueren verb (to travel across, often under difficult conditions)

Greek

3 entries

διασχίζω verb (to travel across, often under difficult conditions)
διατρέχω verb (to travel across, often under difficult conditions)
διατρέχω verb (computing: to visit all parts of; to explore thoroughly)

Hungarian

4 entries

keresztsánc noun (an angle in a defensive trench to prevent enfilade)
bejár verb (computing: to visit all parts of; to explore thoroughly)
keresztülmegy verb (to travel across, often under difficult conditions)
megtesz (utat/távot) verb (to travel across, often under difficult conditions)

Irish

1 entries

taobhfort noun (an angle in a defensive trench to prevent enfilade)

Italian

1 entries

traversare verb (to travel across, often under difficult conditions)

Latin

4 entries

ambulo verb (to travel across, often under difficult conditions)
peragrō verb (to travel across, often under difficult conditions)
relego verb (to travel across, often under difficult conditions)
trānseō verb (to travel across, often under difficult conditions)

Manx

1 entries

troailt verb (to travel across, often under difficult conditions)

Māori

4 entries

niho noun (an angle in a defensive trench to prevent enfilade)
hōpara verb (to travel across, often under difficult conditions)
topetope verb (to travel across, often under difficult conditions)
topetope verb (to travel across, often under difficult conditions)

Old French

1 entries

trespasser verb (to travel across, often under difficult conditions)

Ottoman Turkish

1 entries

آشمق verb (to travel across, often under difficult conditions)

Polish

1 entries

trawersować verb (to travel across, often under difficult conditions)

Portuguese

2 entries

atravessar verb (to travel across, often under difficult conditions)
transir verb (to travel across, often under difficult conditions)

Quechua

1 entries

chimpay verb (to travel across, often under difficult conditions)

Russian

4 entries

обойти́ verb (computing: to visit all parts of; to explore thoroughly)
обходи́ть verb (computing: to visit all parts of; to explore thoroughly)
перейти́ verb (to travel across, often under difficult conditions)
пересе́чь verb (to travel across, often under difficult conditions)

Sanskrit

1 entries

तरति verb (to travel across, often under difficult conditions)

Spanish

4 entries

atravesar verb (to travel across, often under difficult conditions)
cruzar verb (to travel across, often under difficult conditions)
recorrer verb (to travel across, often under difficult conditions)
recorrer verb (computing: to visit all parts of; to explore thoroughly)

Urdu

1 entries

پار کرنا verb (to travel across, often under difficult conditions)

Volapük

1 entries

dugolön verb (to travel across, often under difficult conditions)

Sample sentences

32 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

On December 7th 1941 Japanese fleet consisting of 6 aircraft carriers: Akagi, Kaga, Hiryū, Sōryū, Shōkaku, and Zuikaku and additional two line battleships: Hiei und Kirishima were spotted on the traverse to the Oahu island, Hawaii.

Source: tatoeba (2832734)

Unfamiliar terrain can be difficult to traverse.

Source: tatoeba (4232506)

There are no inhabitants of this land of despair. A band of Pawnees or of Blackfeet may occasionally traverse it in order to reach other hunting-grounds, but the hardiest of the braves are glad to lose sight of those awesome plains, and to find themselves once more upon the prairies.

Source: tatoeba (6310199)

They had to traverse an uncharted mountain range.

Source: tatoeba (8291105)

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