unstemmable en · ADJ
Etymology
From un- + stem + -able.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) That cannot be stemmed; being an unstoppable flood.
Mary takes in a screening of Niagara the day she learns she's carrying Ray's baby, and this is only one of many watery images that flow through the book's roiling currents: Bell's struggle with the lake's waves, the unstemmable surges of illicit passion, the rains that come to carry everything in its path.
2009 September 6, Geoff Pevere, “The human wreckage of the great blow of '54”, in Toronto Star: