Definition of "unfordable" [unfordable]

• Unable to be forded (adjective)

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• "The sector, which had been quiet for most of four years, stretched some 20 miles from the unfordable Meuse River through the large Argonne Forest."
• "The New River, a formerly dry barranca now pouring Colorado River water into the Salton Sea, soon became unfordable by conventional means."
• "Owing to its swollen condition the river was unfordable but knowing that there was a covered bridge at Duguidsville, I hoped to secure it by a dash, and cross there, but the enemy, anticipating this, had filled the bridge with inflammable material, and just as our troops got within striking distance it burst into flames."