Traversed is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for TRAVERSED in dictionary:

VERB:
• TRAVERSE, 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).
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
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to pass across or through

Words related to TRAVERSED

traverse11 traverses12 traversing14

Words that contain TRAVERSED

untraversed15

How to use TRAVERSED in a sentence

• I had already traversed this country, and as the day was very misty with much rain, nothing worthy of further record was observed.
• Casting a glance backward over the foregoing sketch of Italian sculpture, it will be seen that three distinct stages were traversed in the evolution of this art.
• His closed hand, surrounded by straps, had been traversed by the nails, which, continuing to grow, had bent like claws on the other side.
• A Captain Cunningham is mentioned to have traversed the country from St.
• After having traversed for some time a desert, sandy plain without meeting a living creature, we arrived at a thick wood, where we lost the traces we had carefully followed.
• The country we traversed this morning was still marshy, and intersected by deep streams.
• Indeed the natives subsequently reported that the tract we had just traversed was at this season of the year totally devoid of water.
• There is thus an appreciable difference between the ultimate distances traversed by the most energetic rays of the two families.
• The sphere traversed in these exercises was a narrow one.
• The distance to be traversed was but some fifteen yards, and a few strokes of his brawny arms brought him to the opposite bank.
• The business centre is in the district traversed by Broad Street, High Street, Wine Street and Corn Street, which radiate from a centre close to the Floating Harbour.
• And he had not proceeded far along the high road before he came to a cross road, and the cross road traversed a wood.
• Each day was something more than a mere toll of so many miles traversed.
• She traversed Broadway and other world-known arteries, and felt a trifle dubious amid the unceasing crush.
• The Pacific had to be crossed, and a coast lined with reefs like a ploughed field traversed for two thousand miles among Indians notorious for their treachery.
• He took flight at once, and traversed many countries, swiftly as a bird can, but found no trace of his beloved.
• Also there was yet the most dangerous portion of the way to be traversed.
• Father and son had traversed half the width of the cemetery, when they came to a spacious lot, surrounded by large trees and containing several monuments.
• The number of dogs harnessed to this sledge varies from seven to fifteen, according to the nature of the country to be traversed and the weight of the load.
• It was as though I had been carried back to the birth time of our own outer world to look upon its lands and seas ages before man had traversed either.
• Major Bartlett knows the part of the line which Colonel Binkus traversed.
• Part of his army traversed the narrow spit of land which separated the Lake Serbonis from the Mediterranean, and in doing so met with a disaster.
• WIDE-SPREAD DESTRUCTION Although the earth-wave traversed the whole city, the shock was felt more severely in some quarters than in others.
• The Huns, emerging from the northern frontiers of China, traversed the immense intervening deserts, and swept over European Russia, spreading everywhere flames and desolation.
• As he traversed the streets, he called earnestly upon all who remained to rally upon the walls for their defense.
• One Winchester bullet entered an eye-socket and traversed the skull diagonally, passing through the forward part of the brain.
• It almost appeared as if the Australian sky were never again to be traversed by a cloud.

Similar words containing TRAVERS without suffix ed

traverse11 traversal12 traverser12 traverses12 traversals13 traversers13 traversing14 traversable16 traversings15 untraversed15 extraversion22 extraversive25 extraversions23 untraversable18 intraversable18 extraversively30

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