Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Difficult or impossible to eradicate or destroy.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not extirpable; incapable of being extirpated.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Not capable of being extirpated or rooted out; ineradicable.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Not capable of being
extirpated or rooted out;ineradicable .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective incapable of extermination or extirpation
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Examples
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There is no explaining otherwise to them, and anything less inevitably produces indignation and an inextirpable sense of injustice.
THE CLOSING OF THE AMERICAN MIND Allan Bloom 2003
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There is no explaining otherwise to them, and anything less inevitably produces indignation and an inextirpable sense of injustice.
THE CLOSING OF THE AMERICAN MIND Allan Bloom 2003
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It is the profound, incurable, and inextirpable bigotry of the English people, to which they will not hesitate to sacrifice the national honour, the public happiness, their own liberties, and their own consciences ... ....
Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846 James Richardson 1828
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