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traverser — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • cross noun A shape formed by two intersecting lines, or an upright post with a crossbar, especially as a religious symbol.
  • traverse verb To travel across or through something, often under difficult conditions.

Senses

traverser is used for these senses in English:

  • cross (intransitive) To travel in a direction or path that will intersect with that of another.
  • cross (football) To pass the ball from one side of the pitch to the other side.
  • get across (transitive, intransitive) To cross; to move from one side (of something) to the other, literally or figuratively.
  • go through (literally) To travel from one end of something to the other.
  • go through (transitive) To undergo, suffer, experience.
  • pass through To go through, to travel through, to transit or lie across a place or from one place to another.
  • traverse (transitive) To travel across, to go through, to pass through, particularly under difficult conditions.

cross — full definition

  1. noun A shape formed by two intersecting lines, or an upright post with a crossbar, especially as a religious symbol.
  2. verb To go from one side of something to the other.
  3. adj Annoyed or bad-tempered.

traverse — full definition

  1. verb To travel across or through something, often under difficult conditions.
  2. verb To move sideways across a slope rather than straight up or down it.
  3. noun A route or path that crosses an area, especially in mountaineering.

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