impassable barrier

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• impassable — impassable, impenetrable, impervious, impermeable are comparable when they mean not allowing passage through. Impassable applies chiefly to stretches of land or water which cannot be passed over or crossed because of some insuperable difficulty… …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

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