Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not navigable; unnavigable.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Incapable of being navigated; impassable by ships or vessels.
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- adjective Incapable of being
navigated ;impassable by ships etc.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Master Thorne, in the sixteenth century, expressed the resolute spirit of that energy in a phrase: "There is no land uninhabitable, nor sea innavigable"; and in every part of the globe this British spirit has applied itself to many a land that looked hopeless at first, and has frequently found it to be one:
Terre Napoleón; a History of French Explorations and Projects in Australia Ernest Scott 1903
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Nothing showed under the innavigable depths of Sara's eyes.
Robert Orange Being a Continuation of the History of Robert Orange John Oliver Hobbes 1886
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A month since the Elbe was cleared of ice, and now, contrary to the expectation of all, the cold had returned to such a degree, that it was a second time innavigable.
A Narrative of some of the Lord's Dealings with George Müller Written by Himself. Second Part George M��ller 1851
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An innavigable sea washes with silent waves between us and the things we aim at and converse with.
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An innavigable sea washes with silent waves between us and the things we aim at and converse with.
Essays — Second Series Ralph Waldo Emerson 1842
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Drift courses are comprised of incredibly tight decreasing-radius turns, and are almost innavigable as road courses.
Speed:Sport:Life 2009
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Which Acheron furrounds, th 'innavigable flood: J Conduct me through the regions void of light.
The works of the English poets; with prefaces, biographical and critical 1790
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1Although inhospitable, the Cedarberg is far from uninhabitable or innavigable.
Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa 2008
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The destruction of the woods, to say nothing of its effects upon the rainfall, caused the top soil to be washed away, and thus impoverished the arable land, filling the rivers with earth, rendering them innavigable, and converting them from gently-flowing streams to devastating torrents, which annually bestrew the valleys and plains with sand and stones. [
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876 Various
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