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undrainable en · ADJ

Etymology

From un- + drainable.

Meanings

1. That cannot be drained.
   • an undrainable pond
   • It was as though it [the rain] defied the Castle's inmost faith; taunted it with a dull, ignorant descent of blasphemy, as though the undrainable clouds were muttering: 'What is an Earling to us? It is immaterial.' 1946, Mervyn Peake, Titus Groan, London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, →OCLC:

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