Traverse is valid Scrabble Word

Is traverse a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
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8 letters word
11 points in Scrabble
12 points in WWF

Definitions for TRAVERSE in dictionary:

VERB:

to cross or pass through
travel across or through
extend across or through
cross a rock face by means of a series of sideways movements from one practicable line of ascent or descent to another
ski diagonally across (a slope), losing only a little height
consider the whole extent of (a subject)
move back and forth or sideways
turn (a large gun or other device on a pivot) to face a different direction.
deny (an allegation) in pleading
oppose or thwart (a plan).

pass or go over
Athwart; across; crosswise.
To use the posture or motions of opposition or counteraction, as in fencing.
To turn, as on a pivot; to move round; to swivel; as, the needle of a compass traverses; if it does not traverse well, it is an unsafe guide.
To tread or move crosswise, as a horse that throws his croup to one side and his head to the other.
travel across or pass over
to cover or extend over an area or time period
deny formally (an allegation of fact by the opposing party) in a legal suit

NOUN:

an act of traversing something
a rock face where traversing is necessary
a movement following a diagonal course made by a skier descending a slope
a zigzag course taken by a ship because winds or currents prevent it from sailing directly towards its destination.
a part of a structure that extends or is fixed across something
a gallery extending from side to side of a church or other building.
a mechanism enabling a large gun to be turned to face a different direction
the sideways movement of a part in a machine.
a single line of survey, usually plotted from compass bearings and measured distances between successive points.
an area of land surveyed with a traverse.
a pair of right-angled bends incorporated in a trench to avoid enfilading fire
a horizontal beam that extends across something
a horizontal crosspiece across a window or separating a door from a window over it
taking a zigzag path on skis

ADJECTIVE:

Lying across; being in a direction across something else; as, paths cut with traverse trenches.
Anything that traverses, or crosses.
Something that thwarts, crosses, or obstructs; a cross accident; as, he would have succeeded, had it not been for unlucky traverses not under his control.
A barrier, sliding door, movable screen, curtain, or the like.
A gallery or loft of communication from side to side of a church or other large building.
A work thrown up to intercept an enfilade, or reverse fire, along exposed passage, or line of work.
A formal denial of some matter of fact alleged by the opposite party in any stage of the pleadings. The technical words introducing a traverse are absque hoc, without this; that is, without this which follows.
The zigzag course or courses made by a ship in passing from one place to another; a compound course.
A line lying across a figure or other lines; a transversal.
A line surveyed across a plot of ground.
The turning of a gun so as to make it point in any desired direction.
A turning; a trick; a subterfuge.
To lay in a cross direction; to cross.
To cross by way of opposition; to thwart with obstacles; to obstruct; to bring to naught.
To wander over; to cross in traveling; as, to traverse the habitable globe.
To pass over and view; to survey carefully.
To turn to the one side or the other, in order to point in any direction; as, to traverse a cannon.
To plane in a direction across the grain of the wood; as, to traverse a board.
To deny formally, as what the opposite party has alleged. When the plaintiff or defendant advances new matter, he avers it to be true, and traverses what the other party has affirmed. To traverse an indictment or an office is to deny it.

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

to pass across or through

Words related to TRAVERSE

traversable16 traversal12 traversals13 traversed13 traverser12 traversers13 traverses12 traversing14

Words that contain TRAVERSE

traversed13 traverser12 traverses12 traversers13 untraversed15

How to use TRAVERSE in a sentence

The examination of these works of course occupied us for a long time, and obliged us to traverse several miles of ground.
Whaley had brought West supplies enough to carry him only to Lookout, where he was to stock for a long traverse into the wilds.
Most of the wild animals use old Ski tracks as highways now, even finding it worth while to follow the zigzag of an uphill traverse.
In Bengal, in the hot dry weather, the country roads are difficult to traverse.
I know very few countries in Europe where I should like to traverse vast forests, and pass the night in such awfully lonely houses, accompanied by only a hired guide.
Consequently, when good roads traverse it, French Morocco will be reached in less than two hours by motor-travellers bound for the south.
It required eight days to traverse the shores and bays to Mackinack, and three more to reach St.
He further says that the traverse to Old Mackinack was made directly from the old town, on Round Island, and that it was from thence they-went over to get rum.
It was nearly six before Lady Deppingham arrived, although she had but forty steps to traverse.
The blows of the sea seemed to traverse it in an unringing, stunning shock, from side to side.

While the Captain was absent, his wife and family were obliged to traverse the shore seeking for small fish, which they were sometimes fortunate in securing.
With that ring on her finger, who could charge her with caring for anyone but the giver? Guy Traverse thought he had every reason to feel sad and gloomy.
The surrounding space would not seem large enough for the four figures were it not for this added depth of space, which gives the eye a long distance to traverse.
Merely to state the goal is to acknowledge the great distance that the human race has yet to traverse.
The country was difficult to traverse, the people were bold and hostile.
She wanted to cry out that he must not try the traverse, but she set her will not to make it harder for him.
The French-Canadian pilots who had been taken prisoners swore that no fleet could ever get through the Traverse, a tricky bit of water thirty miles below Quebec.
He had made the traverse several times successfully, and was thoroughly acquainted with most of the ground on both banks of the Potomac.
He was borne into the trench and carried round the first traverse.
I shall leave the old house in the autumn To traverse the threshold no more, Ah! how I shall sigh for the dear ones That meet me each morn at the door.
Private Berger had stepped into the traverse at his right.
Stepping to the end of the traverse, he peered around the jog.
After that the prisoners proceeded in moody silence, until, at last, they rounded out a traverse and ran into several soldiers.
Beyond this knob they had still to traverse a wide valley and climb a third mountain before they reached their camp site.
Two persons armed with muskets may traverse the island from one end to the other in the most perfect safety.
From north to south volcanic hills traverse its length, their ridges intersected by fertile and beautiful valleys.
Those canvas houses, which had concealed the growth of the traverse from the view of the enemy, were now protected and hid in their turn.
Paul Railway through the Lake Traverse Reservation, in Dakota.
As they lived up at the north end, they had to traverse almost the entire length of the parish.

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