impassible

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Key roads remain impassible, preventing Haitians like 52-year-old Nadine Prosper from reaching one of the few operating hospitals.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 9, 2024

Buckled and impassible roads won’t make it any easier for medical organizations, said Kirsch, who has worked extensively in disaster zones, including in Haiti after it was devastated by a 2010 earthquake.

From Washington Post • Feb. 9, 2023

That said, the Orlando neighborhood of Rio Pinar Estates had become a giant, impassible lake as the mayor briefed the public, and some 200,000 residents were without electricity.

From New York Times • Sep. 29, 2022

At one point last month, an already shallow portion fell to a depth of 15 inches, making it impassible for cargo ships.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 4, 2022

Let us bring him myrrh, because we believe that he was mortal in our flesh, who is impassible in his divine nature.

From The Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church Containing the Sermones Catholici, or Homilies of ?lfric, in the Original Anglo-Saxon, with an English Version. Volume I. by Aelfric, Abbot of Eynsham