impassable

Adjective complement with noun phrase

• make: The snow had made the roads almost impassable for horses.
• render: For instance, culverting or the construction of weirs may render watercourses impassable to fish and other wildlife.

Modifies a noun

• gulf: According to the same author these living ones " have chosen to proclaim the existence of an impassable gulf between the revolutionary ( ?
• rift: Above, the passage narrowed into an impassable rift.
• barrier: This Agra treasure intervened like an impassable barrier between us.
• road: Friday 8th January 1982 Work did not, due to presumed impassable road.
• obstacle: The mouse is able to gnaw its way past, or slip under seemingly impassable obstacles.
• passage: A climb up here leads to an impassable passage at the top.

Used with adjective complement

• become: The fields through which men should have gone became impassable.
• make: There are far too many footpaths deliberately blocked with barbed wire or made impassable by water troughs.
• render: The trees fell across the lane toward the north and northwest, so that the road was rendered totally impassable for some weeks.

Preposition: after

rain: Driving Main roads are generally in good condition, tho rural roads are typically of packed earth and hence impassable after rain.

Modifying Another Word

• virtually: An update, received in May 2000, says the canal beyond is " virtually impassable " .
• seemingly: The mouse is able to gnaw its way past, or slip under seemingly impassable obstacles.
• almost: The road was almost impassable, even on foot.
• totally: We got up to the Bromley Stop Lock, after here the canal is totally impassable.
• completely: In winter, most local roads became almost completely impassable.
• often: Wheeled vehicles had to take their chances along poorly maintained valley bottom highways, often impassable in the winter with mud.

Preposition: in

• winter: Then, through the locally famed Snake Pass ( impassable in winter!
• weather: They replaced roads that were little more than dirt tracks and were often impassable in bad weather.