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uncrossable
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English
Etymology
Adjective
uncrossable (comparative more uncrossable, superlative most uncrossable)
- Impossible to cross.
- 1999, Robert D. Abbott, The World as Information: Overload and Personal Design, →ISBN, page 38:
- There is what appears under normal circumstances to be an uncrossable boundary, a total barrier.
- 2009 August 16, Max Byrd, “Rosie and Friends”, in New York Times:
- And it’s brilliantly stitched together by motifs of chrysalises and movies and by a joyous abundance of metaphor and simile: “the ding of a bicycle bell like struck crystal”; a woman “talking for much of the day in a steady soft uncrossable stream.”
- 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 50:
- There are two Underground stations. That serving the District and Piccadilly is on one side of an uncrossable road called Hammersmith Broadway; that serving the Hammersmith & City is on the other side. Whichever exit you emerge from, at whichever station, you are immediately lost.
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