traverse

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• General-American: /tɹəˈvɝs/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /tɹəˈvɜːs/
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• rhymes with -ɜː(ɹ)s
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• General-American: /ˈtɹævɚs/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈtɹævəs/
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• CMU ARPABET: T R AE1 V ER0 S Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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• CMU ARPABET 2: T R AH0 V ER1 S Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English traversen, from Old French traverser, from Latin trans (“across”) + versus (“turned”), perfect passive participle of Latin vertere (“to turn”).

Borrowed from French Traverse.

68 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Finnish: mutka — an angle in a defensive trench to prevent enfilade
• Hungarian: keresztsánc — an angle in a defensive trench to prevent enfilade
• Irish: taobhfort — an angle in a defensive trench to prevent enfilade
• Māori: niho — an angle in a defensive trench to prevent enfilade
• Swedish: travers — an angle in a defensive trench to prevent enfilade
• Arabic: اِجْتَازَ (ijtāza) — to travel across, often under difficult conditions
• Arabic: عَبَرَ (ʕabara) — to travel across, often under difficult conditions
• Arabic: عدى (ʕada) — to travel across, often under difficult conditions
• Bulgarian: прекосявам (prekosjavam) — to travel across, often under difficult conditions
• Catalan: recórrer — to travel across, often under difficult conditions
• Chinese Mandarin: 遍歷 /遍历 (biànlì) — to travel across, often under difficult conditions
• Czech: překročit — to travel across, often under difficult conditions
• Czech: přejít — to travel across, often under difficult conditions
• Czech: přejet — to travel across, often under difficult conditions
• Danish: at traversere — to travel across, often under difficult conditions
• Dutch: doorkruisen — to travel across, often under difficult conditions
• Dutch: doorreizen — to travel across, often under difficult conditions
• Esperanto: transiri — to travel across, often under difficult conditions
• Finnish: kulkea — to travel across, often under difficult conditions
• French: franchir — to travel across, often under difficult conditions
• French: traverser — to travel across, often under difficult conditions
• Old French: trespasser — to travel across, often under difficult conditions
• German: durchkreuzen — to travel across, often under difficult conditions
• German: durchqueren — to travel across, often under difficult conditions
• German: überqueren — to travel across, often under difficult conditions
• Greek: διασχίζω (diaschízo) — to travel across, often under difficult conditions
• Greek: διατρέχω (diatrécho) — to travel across, often under difficult conditions
• Ancient Greek: περάω (peráō) — to travel across, often under difficult conditions
• Hungarian: átkel — to travel across, often under difficult conditions
• Hungarian: áthalad — to travel across, often under difficult conditions
• Hungarian: keresztülmegy — to travel across, often under difficult conditions
• Hungarian: megtesz (utat/távot) — to travel across, often under difficult conditions
• Italian: traversare — to travel across, often under difficult conditions
• Latin: trānseō — to travel across, often under difficult conditions
• Latin: peragrō — to travel across, often under difficult conditions
• Latin: ambulo — to travel across, often under difficult conditions
• Latin: relego — to travel across, often under difficult conditions
• Manx: troailt — to travel across, often under difficult conditions
• Māori: topetope — to travel across, often under difficult conditions
• Māori: tāwhai — to travel across, often under difficult conditions
• Māori: hōpara — to travel across, often under difficult conditions
• Māori: tāroi — to travel across, often under difficult conditions
• Māori: umiki — to travel across, often under difficult conditions
• Polish: trawersować — to travel across, often under difficult conditions
• Portuguese: atravessar — to travel across, often under difficult conditions
• Portuguese: transir — to travel across, often under difficult conditions
• Quechua: chimpay — to travel across, often under difficult conditions
• Russian: преодолева́ть (preodolevátʹ) — to travel across, often under difficult conditions
• Russian: преодоле́ть (preodolétʹ) — to travel across, often under difficult conditions
• Russian: пересека́ть (peresekátʹ) — to travel across, often under difficult conditions
• Russian: пересе́чь (pereséčʹ) — to travel across, often under difficult conditions
• Russian: переходи́ть (perexodítʹ) — to travel across, often under difficult conditions
• Russian: перейти́ (perejtí) — to travel across, often under difficult conditions
• Sanskrit: तरति (tarati) — to travel across, often under difficult conditions
• Spanish: atravesar — to travel across, often under difficult conditions
• Spanish: cruzar — to travel across, often under difficult conditions
• Spanish: travesar — to travel across, often under difficult conditions
• Spanish: recorrer — to travel across, often under difficult conditions
• Ottoman Turkish: آشمق (aşmak) — to travel across, often under difficult conditions
• Urdu: پار کرنا — to travel across, often under difficult conditions
• Volapük: dugolön — to travel across, often under difficult conditions
• Danish: at traversere — computing: to visit all parts of; to explore thoroughly
• Finnish: läpikäydä — computing: to visit all parts of; to explore thoroughly
• Greek: διατρέχω (diatrécho) — computing: to visit all parts of; to explore thoroughly
• Hungarian: bejár — computing: to visit all parts of; to explore thoroughly
• Russian: обходи́ть (obxodítʹ) — computing: to visit all parts of; to explore thoroughly
• Russian: обойти́ (obojtí) — computing: to visit all parts of; to explore thoroughly
• Spanish: recorrer — computing: to visit all parts of; to explore thoroughly