transversed
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Our bodies are transversed by millions of nerve fibres that transmit information.
From Science Daily • Nov. 28, 2023
They are all transversed, because if a shell or bomb should burst in one part of the trench the transverse prevents the spread of the shrapnel.
From Over the top with the 25th Chronicle of events at Vimy Ridge and Courcellette by Lewis, R.
This poem was attacked by Mr. Charles Montague, afterwards Earl of Hallifax, and Mr. Matthew Prior, who joined in writing the Hind and Panther, transversed to the Country Mouse, and City Mouse, Lond.
From The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume III by Cibber, Theophilus
Indeed, there is but one principal street, which is transversed by a multitude of lanes, which on one side lead down to the sea, and on the other scramble up a steep hill.
From Harry Milvaine The Wanderings of a Wayward Boy by Stables, Gordon
These were transversed with the same colours of other heated bodies, and the latter were absorbed and rendered black.
From Inventions in the Century by Doolittle, William Henry
