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Noun traverse has 4 senses
- trave, traverse, crossbeam, crosspiece - a horizontal beam that extends across something
--1 is a kind of beam
- transom, traverse - a horizontal crosspiece across a window or separating a door from a window over it
--2 is a kind of crosspiece
- traversal, traverse - taking a zigzag path on skis
--3 is a kind of crossing
--3 is a part of skiing
- traversal, traverse - travel across
--4 is a kind of peregrination
Verb traverse has 3 senses
- traverse, track, cover, cross, pass over, get over, get across, cut through, cut across - travel across or pass over; "The caravan covered almost 100 miles each day"
--1 is one way to pass, go through, go across
Sample sentences:
Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s PP
- cross, traverse, span, sweep - to cover or extend over an area or time period; "Rivers traverse the valley floor", "The parking lot spans 3 acres"; "The novel spans three centuries"
--2 is one way to cover, extend
Sample sentence:
Something ----s something
- traverse, deny - deny formally (an allegation of fact by the opposing party) in a legal suit
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
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