Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not exterminable; incapable of being exterminated.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Incapable of extermination.
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- adjective Impossible to
exterminate .
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- adjective incapable of extermination or extirpation
Etymologies
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Examples
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Rossetti proposes interminable, or inexterminable.
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Cattle rustlers quaked and trembled at the name of Sanders as did I.W. W. 's; surrounding States never felt so very kindly disposed toward the Judge, as it was he who in a great measure was responsible for exterminating this disturbing element, or rather dumping it into other States, since it proved inexterminable.
Reno — a Book of Short Stories and Information Lilyan Stratton
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Tears came into his light eyes when he said that, and she perceived that there was nothing in his soul save sickly, deserving innocence, and of course this inexterminable love for her.
The Judge Rebecca West 1937
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Rossetti proposes interminable, or inexterminable.
The Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley — Volume 3 Percy Bysshe Shelley 1807
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Rossetti proposes interminable, or inexterminable.
The Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley — Complete Percy Bysshe Shelley 1807
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Christian temper; a passion which must insensibly acquire force, because it is in continual exercise; to which almost every thing _without_ administers nutriment, and the growth of which _within_ is favoured and cherished by such powerful auxiliaries as pride and selfishness, the natural and perhaps inexterminable inhabitants of the human heart; of which the predominance, if established, is thus so pernicious, and which possesses so many advantages for effecting its establishment.
A Practical View of the Prevailing Religious System of Professed Christians, in the Middle and Higher Classes in this Country, Contrasted with Real Christianity. William Wilberforce 1796
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Unearned correlational art guts methodist brierwood, cheerless inexterminable maiolica, irreparable agama, nasal freeware.
Rational Review 2009
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