Word Type

Verb

Noun

Proper Noun

Adverb

Adjective

The word "traverse" can be used as verb, noun, proper noun, adverb and adjective.

Word Relationships

Derived Terms

traverse drill traversing platform

Context

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

Broader Terms (Hypernyms)

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

Manner Of

pass

Related Terms

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

Related Terms

across ascent athwart crosswise defensive denial deny descent enfilade explore face formal gallery gradient grain grand traverse county incline loft mountaineering partition plane pleading rock climbing rotate route screen slope thoroughly transversal traversal traverse city traverse county traversive travis trench trench warfare

Synonym Network

crisscross cross transom trave traversal

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.