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unsweepable en · ADJ

Etymology

From un- + sweepable.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Of a mine: incapable of being located by minesweeping.
    • We have begun each of our last two wars with the enemy laying unsweepable mines. I shall not dwell on the unsweepable mine of 1914. 1997, Eric Grove, The Defeat of the enemy attack upon shipping, 1939-1945, page xxxiv: