traverses
Moves through completely
Traverses is the third-person singular present tense of traverse, meaning to travel across, through, or over something.
When someone traverses terrain, they cross it, often with some difficulty or deliberation: The trail traverses the mountain ridge for several miles.
The word applies equally to physical journeys and more abstract crossings—a lawyer traverses legal arguments, a novel traverses themes of loss.
As a noun, traverses refers to routes or paths that cross something, or to sideways movements in climbing or skiing.
Structure spanning an obstacle
- fordWalkable river crossing
- overpassBridge spanning a road
- intersectionPoint where paths meet
- footbridgePedestrian span over obstacles
viaduct · causeway · passage · pathway · tunnel · skywalk · corridor · thoroughfare
bridge
Structure spanning an obstacle
- fordWalkable river crossing
- overpassBridge spanning a road
- intersectionPoint where paths meet
footbridge · viaduct · causeway · passage · pathway · tunnel · skywalk · corridor · thoroughfare · route
- runs throughflows, streams, courses, passes, crosses
- slopesslope, incline, slopes, inclines, grade
- disagree verbsdenies, opposes, disputes, rejects, challenges
- siege warfaresiege, siege tower, siege engine, siege guns, siege warfare
- ski terrainblack diamond, blue run, green run, runs, trails
- trail featurestrail, trailhead, trail map, trail maps, trail sign
traversesretreats
Backs off or sanctuaries
avoids · turns back · circumvents · bypasses · skirts
traverse, traversing, traversed, traversal, traversable, untraversable