unbailable

adj

unbailable

adj

Etymology From un- + bailable.

1

Not bailable.

Humans had to be schooled in how to describe the maelstrom as if they weren’t lost in the middle of it, in their own unbailable open boat.1995, Richard Powers, Galatea 2.2, Vintage (2019), page 246:

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