Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In an impassable manner or degree.

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  • adverb In an impassable manner.

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Examples

  • Within two days, without pumping, New York's subway would impassably flood.

    Alan Weisman speaks about his groundbreaking book, The World Without Us 2010

  • The southeast area, in the trees, was more beautiful and secluded, but would have added another mile to the site entrance and called for a bridge over an old river channel that became impassably wet in springtime.

    Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011

  • The southeast area, in the trees, was more beautiful and secluded, but would have added another mile to the site entrance and called for a bridge over an old river channel that became impassably wet in springtime.

    Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011

  • The southeast area, in the trees, was more beautiful and secluded, but would have added another mile to the site entrance and called for a bridge over an old river channel that became impassably wet in springtime.

    Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011

  • The southeast area, in the trees, was more beautiful and secluded, but would have added another mile to the site entrance and called for a bridge over an old river channel that became impassably wet in springtime.

    Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011

  • The narrowing pass they had been following ended at the river, which funneled swiftly but not impassably to the west through a steep gorge.

    The Lives of Felix Gunderson Sugu Althomsons 2010

  • That one obstacle to faith, if no other, is all but impassably high.

    Letter to a Godchild Reynolds Price 2006

  • That one obstacle to faith, if no other, is all but impassably high.

    Letter to a Godchild Reynolds Price 2006

  • They ascended on up the line of the ridge until they came to a place where their path seemed to fall off impassably into the valley below.

    Reiffeins Choice 2006

  • The street in front of the church was impassably clotted with a mixture of hearses, black limousines, colorful funeral wreaths, and disassembled carnival rides on flatbed trucks.

    Hazard area shunn 2003

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