traverse
/tɹəˈvɝs/ verb C2- To travel across, to go through, to pass through, particularly under difficult conditions. · He will have to traverse the mountain to get to the other side.
- To visit all parts of; to explore thoroughly. · to traverse all nodes in a network
- To lay in a cross direction; to cross.
- To rotate a gun around a vertical axis to bear upon a military target. · to traverse a cannon
- To climb or descend a steep hill at a wide angle (relative to the slope).
- To (make a cutting, an incline) across the gradients of a sloped face at safe rate. · the road traversed the face of the ridge as the right-of-way climbed the mountain· The last run, weary, I traversed the descents in no hurry to reach the lodge.
- To act against; to thwart or obstruct.
- To pass over and view; to survey carefully.
He/she/it traverses · Past traversed · Past participle traversed · -ing form traversing
Verb forms
- Base form
- traverse
- He/she/it
- traverses
- Past
- traversed
- Past participle
- traversed
- -ing form
- traversing
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Le Blanc was not a fast animal, but he kept up an easy, steady pace; in three hours and a half Andrea had traversed the nine leagues which separated him from Compiègne, and four o’clock struck as he reached the place where the coaches stop.
Villefort traversed the antechamber, cast a side glance at Dantès, and taking a packet which a gendarme offered him, disappeared, saying, “Bring in the prisoner.”
One inhabited a deep pond, far removed from public view; the other lived in a gully containing little water, and traversed by a country road.
The commissary of police, as he traversed the antechamber, made a sign to two gendarmes, who placed themselves one on Dantès’ right and the other on his left.
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