Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not to be endured; intolerable.
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- adjective Not to be
endured ;intolerable .
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- adjective incapable of being put up with
Etymologies
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Examples
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THE federal government says "push factors" such as unendurable turmoil back home are behind this surge of asylum-seekers.
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THE federal government says "push factors" such as unendurable turmoil back home are behind this surge of asylum-seekers.
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THE federal government says "push factors" such as unendurable turmoil back home are behind this surge of asylum-seekers.
WN.com - Articles related to Tamil Tigers join race for asylum 2009
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That whole ethic seems suddenly unendurable because we see that they are only in it for themselves and they don't mind who they crush on their way to dominance, whether it is an actress who has had the courage to fight for privacy or the greatest public service broadcaster in the world.
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It wastes Jenna Elfman, a TV star whose fluttery nuttiness can be adorable in the right vehicle and unendurable in the wrong one.
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I think these are the great existential questions, the basis of all that makes life hard, complicated and, from time to time, unendurable.
Suffering and Enlightenment « Tales from the Reading Room 2009
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Both involve the use of unendurable physical pain to coerce the victim into talking – that is to say, both are the use of torture to coerce confessions.
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Victory in World War I depended, in large part, on the greater ability to endure the nearly unendurable and thereby delay defeat.
The Bitter End William Anthony Hay 2011
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At times the silent cottage became unendurable, and Saxon would throw a shawl about her head and walk out the Oakland Mole, or cross the railroad yards and the marshes to Sandy Beach where
CHAPTER XV 2010
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Further, he developed an elaborate theory of both positive and negative conditioned responses, which appear in varying patterns when a dog is subjected to unendurable stress ( "trans-marginally stimulated").
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