undrainable

adj

undrainable

adj

Etymology From un- + drainable.

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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