Traverses Synonyms and Antonyms

Resist, contradict
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. negates
  2. gainsays
  3. denies
  4. controverts
  5. contravenes
  6. contradicts
Antonyms:
  1. confirms
Travel across or pass over
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. tracks
  2. transits
  3. crosses
  4. covers
  5. passes
To look at carefully or critically
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. cases
  2. views
  3. surveys
  4. studies
  5. scrutinizes
  6. inspects
  7. examines
  8. cons
  9. checks
To move, as a gun, laterally
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. swivels
  2. pivots
To move in a zigzag manner, as on a ski slope
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. zigzags

Words Related to Traverses

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Traverses Sentence Examples

  • Entering the department of Lot, it abandons a south-westerly for a westerly course and flowing in a sinuous channel traverses the department of Dordogne, where it receives the waters of the Vezere.

  • These movements in the south-east formed the Great Valley of Victoria, which traverses nearly the whole of the state between the Victorian highlands to the north, and the Jurassic sandstones of the Otway Ranges and the hills of south Gippsland.

  • The chief streams are the Werra, which traverses the south and east of the duchy, and various tributaries of the Main and the Saale, so that Saxe-Meiningen belongs to the basins of the three great rivers Weser, Rhine and Elbe.

  • When there is no current the shutter covers the perforations and no light passes, but when a current traverses the wires they are depressed by electromagnetic action, carrying the shutter with them, and a quantity of light proportional to the current strength is admitted through the perforations.

  • In its lower course it flows near Canosa and traverses the celebrated battlefield of Cannae.

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