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Impassable

Incapable of being passed; not admitting a passage; as, an impassable road, mountain, or gulf.

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Unsurmountable 84% connected

Insurmountable.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Unsurmountable 84% connected

Insurmountable.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Unpassable 92% connected

Impassable.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Passable 94% connected

Capable of being passed, traveled, navigated, traversed, penetrated, or the like; as, the roads are not passable; the stream is passablein boats.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Passable 94% connected

Capable of being passed, traveled, navigated, traversed, penetrated, or the like; as, the roads are not passable; the stream is passablein boats.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Air shaft unknown · 78% connection

A passage, usually vertical, for admitting fresh air into a mine or a tunnel.

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Block noun · 78% connection

To obstruct so as to prevent passage or progress; to prevent passage from, through, or into, by obstructing the way; -- used both of p…

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Butte noun · 78% connection

A detached low mountain, or high rising abruptly from the general level of the surrounding plain; -- applied to peculiar elevations in…

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By-turning noun · 78% connection

An obscure road; a way turning from the main road.

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Crossroad noun · 78% connection

A road that crosses another; an obscure road intersecting or avoiding the main road.

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Grade noun · 78% connection

the gradient of a slope or road or other surface; "the road had a steep grade"

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: incapable, passed, admitting, passage, road.
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Highway noun · 78% connection

A road or way open to the use of the public; a main road or thoroughfare.

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Impenetrable adjective · 78% connection

Incapable of being penetrated or pierced; not admitting the passage of other bodies; not to be entered; impervious; as, an impenetrabl…

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Impertransible adjective · 78% connection

Incapable of being passed through.

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Impervious adjective · 78% connection

Not pervious; not admitting of entrance or passage through; as, a substance impervious to water or air.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: incapable, passed, admitting, passage, road.
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Impracticable adjective · 78% connection

Incapable of being used or availed of; as, an impracticable road; an impracticable method.

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Ingulf verb · 78% connection

To swallow up or overwhelm in, or as in, a gulf; to cast into a gulf. See Engulf.

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Insuperable adjective · 78% connection

Incapable of being passed over or surmounted; insurmountable; as, insuperable difficulties.

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Insurmountable adjective · 78% connection

Incapable of being passed over, surmounted, or overcome; insuperable; as, insurmountable difficulty or obstacle.

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Mount verb · 78% connection

A mass of earth, or earth and rock, rising considerably above the common surface of the surrounding land; a mountain; a high hill; --…

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Mountain adjective · 78% connection

Of or pertaining to a mountain or mountains; growing or living on a mountain; found on or peculiar to mountains; among mountains; as,…

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Pass verb · 78% connection

To advance through all the steps or stages necessary to validity or effectiveness; to be carried through a body that has power to sanc…

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Passage verb · 78% connection

The act of passing; transit from one place to another; movement from point to point; a going by, over, across, or through; as, the pas…

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