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  • adjective Not killable; unable to be killed.

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Examples

  • Holmes is now 'unkillable' - though purists will doubtless argue that Robert Downey Jr. 's rendition of him in the Ritchie film, which at times resembles a Victorian version of Fight Club, is a fate worse than death.

    The Times of India 2010

  • Other successful alliances have their own, varying but similarly clearly signified cultural identities: Red Alliance are supposedly shaped by their willingness to do anything to survive (another "unkillable" belief); AAA by their apparently murderous hunger to destroy (especially supercapitals).

    PvP, asymmetry, and the information game in Eve-Online 2007

  • It's taken the #2 spot in the mobile OS world - well ahead of the "unkillable" iPhone - and reportedly is slated to take on Apple's other hot toy of the moment.

    LXer Linux News 2010

  • He is the play's satanic figure, and like Miltons Satan in "Paradise Lost," he is the most compelling and appalling character, a vicious bigot who calls his nurse "a butterfingers spook faggot," a power worshiper who voices respect for the "unkillable" crab lice that he catches from one of his pickups.

    A Seven-Hour Gay Fantasia 2008

  • A year ago, she and Lucia had undertaken a badass mission to discover a way to defeat the unkillable Cruach forever.

    Dreams of a Dark Warrior Kresley Cole 2011

  • Spin-offs come with the territory, of course, unkillable recurrence being something of a slasher theme.

    Don’t Fear the Reaper 2009

  • Oh, to be a young believer in Philadelphia right now, where the spirit of Christian activism is mingling vigorously with an apparently unkillable strain of old-school countercultural Jesus-freakery.

    Sing to the Lord a New Song 2009

  • He surrendered to the demonstration that I was unkillable.

    Chapter 20 2010

  • What do you wear to a concert where the man who says he can make your daddy unkillable is performing?

    Crossed J.F. Lewis 2011

  • Swung around to face once more an undead and unkillable killer.

    Earl of Durkness Alix Rickloff 2011

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