Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Not relieved.
- adjective Continuous or unvarying.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not relieved, in any sense.
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- adjective
Utter ;complete ; withoutrelief .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective not lessened or diminished
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Examples
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From these thoughts a natural transition led him to consider the wonderful tenacity with which those beings clung to life, whose existence seemed to him only a series of the most terrible sufferings: – beings, who exposed to all the miseries of pain, poverty, sickness, and famine; to pain unrelieved, and the feebleness of age unassisted, yet still were anxious to live; and could never, as he at this moment found himself disposed to do –
The Old Manor House 1793
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Malaria is, indeed, the unrelieved burden on the economy.
Vivian Glyck: What Would You Do if This Was Your Child? Vivian Glyck 2011
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It was a life of unexpected roadblocks, unknown environments and cultures, unrelieved anxiety about what might happen next.
Rev. Peter M. Wallace: Rising Above Stress: A Meditation On Psalm 107 Rev. Peter M. Wallace 2011
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It was a life of unexpected roadblocks, unknown environments and cultures, unrelieved anxiety about what might happen next.
Rev. Peter M. Wallace: Rising Above Stress: A Meditation On Psalm 107 Rev. Peter M. Wallace 2011
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The use of stucco also prevents the occasionally oppressive affect of large stretches of unrelieved brick, and would provide a splendid canvas for the long shadows of afternoon and evening along the structure's flanks.
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Malaria is, indeed, the unrelieved burden on the economy.
Vivian Glyck: What Would You Do if This Was Your Child? Vivian Glyck 2011
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Fistula is a devastating complication of unrelieved obstructed labor in which the baby's head gets stuck in the birth canal and presses against the soft tissues of the pelvis.
The Media Consortium: Weekly Pulse: #DearJohn, Does Banning Abortion Trump Job Growth? The Media Consortium 2011
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The unrelieved po-facery of everyone else is astonishing.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Age Discrmination Against Child Prodigy? 2010
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Fistula is a devastating complication of unrelieved obstructed labor in which the baby's head gets stuck in the birth canal and presses against the soft tissues of the pelvis.
The Media Consortium: Weekly Pulse: #DearJohn, Does Banning Abortion Trump Job Growth? The Media Consortium 2011
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You told Dr. Vaillant he should read Joseph Heller on the unrelieved tragedy of conventionally successful businessmen.
What Makes Us Happy? 2009
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