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1. Travel across or pass over
   "The caravan traversed almost 100 miles each day";
   - track, cover, cross, pass over, get over, get across, cut through, cut across
    
2. To cover or extend over an area or time period
   "Rivers traverse the valley floor";
   - cross, span, sweep
    
3. (law) Contradict formally (an allegation of fact by the opposing party) in a legal suit
   - deny

1. A horizontal beam that extends across something
   - trave, crossbeam, crosspiece
    
2. A horizontal crosspiece across a window or separating a door from a window over it
   - transom
    
3. Taking a zigzag path on skis
   - traversal
    
4. Travel across
   - traversal

Derived forms: traversing, traverses, traversed

See also: pass

Type of: beam, continue, cover, crossing, crosspiece, extend, pass, travel, traveling [US], travelling [Brit, Cdn]

Part of: skiing

Encyclopedia: Traverse, Patrick