See impassable in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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\"status\" : \"ok\", \"lang\" : \"en\" }\" data-lang=\"en\" data-title=\"impassable\">\nFrom im- + pass + -able.",
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"form": "more impassable",
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"form": "most impassable",
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"word": "impassible"
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"ref": "1949 November and December, “Notes and News: Festiniog and Welsh Highland Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 408:",
"text": "At the same time, the encroachment of vegetation proceeds apace, and broom and brambles have already made portions of the line impassable, even on foot.",
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"ref": "1960 December, “Talking of Trains: The railway and the Devon floods”, in Trains Illustrated, page 709:",
"text": "[...] at Cowley Bridge Junction, east of Exeter, both lines were impassable from about 1.30 p.m.—the first flooding of the junction for 36 years—and by the evening the water had risen two-thirds of the way up the platforms at St. Davids as Exeter faced its worst flooding for 60 years.",
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[
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"negotiated"
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],
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{
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],
"raw_glosses": [
"(of an obstacle) Incapable of being overcome or surmounted."
],
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{
"glosses": [
"Not usable as legal tender."
],
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"(of currency) Not usable as legal tender."
],
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"word": "unpassable"
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],
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{
"code": "az",
"lang": "Azerbaijani",
"lang_code": "az",
"sense": "incapable of being passed over, crossed, or negotiated",
"word": "keçilməz"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"lang_code": "bg",
"roman": "neprohodim",
"sense": "incapable of being passed over, crossed, or negotiated",
"word": "непроходим"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"lang_code": "ca",
"sense": "incapable of being passed over, crossed, or negotiated",
"word": "infranquejable"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"lang_code": "de",
"sense": "incapable of being passed over, crossed, or negotiated",
"word": "unpassierbar"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"lang_code": "de",
"sense": "incapable of being passed over, crossed, or negotiated",
"word": "unüberwindbar"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"lang_code": "de",
"sense": "incapable of being passed over, crossed, or negotiated",
"word": "unüberwindlich"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"lang_code": "el",
"roman": "adiávatos",
"sense": "incapable of being passed over, crossed, or negotiated",
"word": "αδιάβατος"
},
{
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"lang_code": "grc",
"roman": "adiábatos",
"sense": "incapable of being passed over, crossed, or negotiated",
"word": "ἀδιάβατος"
},
{
"code": "grc",
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"lang_code": "grc",
"roman": "apóreutos",
"sense": "incapable of being passed over, crossed, or negotiated",
"word": "ἀπόρευτος"
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{
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"roman": "áporos",
"sense": "incapable of being passed over, crossed, or negotiated",
"word": "ἄπορος"
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{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"lang_code": "hu",
"sense": "incapable of being passed over, crossed, or negotiated",
"word": "járhatatlan"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"lang_code": "hu",
"sense": "incapable of being passed over, crossed, or negotiated",
"word": "áthatolhatatlan"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"lang_code": "hu",
"sense": "incapable of being passed over, crossed, or negotiated",
"word": "áthághatatlan"
},
{
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"lang_code": "is",
"sense": "incapable of being passed over, crossed, or negotiated",
"word": "ófært"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"lang_code": "la",
"sense": "incapable of being passed over, crossed, or negotiated",
"word": "invius"
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{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"lang_code": "nb",
"sense": "incapable of being passed over, crossed, or negotiated",
"word": "uframkommelig"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"lang_code": "nb",
"sense": "incapable of being passed over, crossed, or negotiated",
"word": "ufremkommelig"
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{
"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"lang_code": "nn",
"sense": "incapable of being passed over, crossed, or negotiated",
"word": "uframkomeleg"
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{
"code": "nn",
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"lang_code": "nn",
"sense": "incapable of being passed over, crossed, or negotiated",
"word": "uframkommeleg"
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{
"code": "ang",
"lang": "Old English",
"lang_code": "ang",
"sense": "incapable of being passed over, crossed, or negotiated",
"word": "weġlēas"
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{
"code": "pl",
"english": "by car",
"lang": "Polish",
"lang_code": "pl",
"sense": "incapable of being passed over, crossed, or negotiated",
"translation": "by car",
"word": "nieprzejezdny"
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{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"lang_code": "pl",
"sense": "incapable of being passed over, crossed, or negotiated",
"word": "nieprzekraczalny"
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{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"lang_code": "ro",
"sense": "incapable of being passed over, crossed, or negotiated",
"word": "impracticabil"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"lang_code": "es",
"sense": "incapable of being passed over, crossed, or negotiated",
"word": "infranqueable"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"lang_code": "tr",
"sense": "incapable of being passed over, crossed, or negotiated",
"word": "geçilmez"
},
{
"code": "ota",
"lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
"lang_code": "ota",
"roman": "sarp",
"sense": "incapable of being passed over, crossed, or negotiated",
"word": "صارپ"
}
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}
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