Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Incapable of being corroded.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Incapable of being corroded, consumed, or eaten away.
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- adjective Incapable of being
corroded or eaten away.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Here Kanfer shines, getting all of Bogart in an evocative, inventive phrase: "wounded, cynical, romantic, and as incorrodible as a zinc bar."
"Tough Without a Gun," by Stefan Kanfer is a new biography of Humphrey Bogart 2011
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Here Kanfer shines, getting all of Bogart in an evocative, inventive phrase: "wounded, cynical, romantic, and as incorrodible as a zinc bar."
"Tough Without a Gun," by Stefan Kanfer is a new biography of Humphrey Bogart 2011
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The Supramental Force demands our unalloyed loyalty and incorrodible adherence
The Supramental Force demands our unalloyed loyalty and incorrodible adherence Tusar N Mohapatra 2008
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The Supramental Force demands our unalloyed loyalty and incorrodible adherence
Archive 2008-10-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2008
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Savitri Era: The Supramental Force demands our unalloyed loyalty and incorrodible adherence skip to main
The Supramental Force demands our unalloyed loyalty and incorrodible adherence Tusar N Mohapatra 2008
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In order to overcome this defect, inherent to metal nipples, burners are now constructed for acetylene in which the nipple is of hard incorrodible material.
Acetylene, the Principles of Its Generation and Use W. J. Atkinson Butterfield
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Rejecting the use of windows as a means of ventilation, and rejecting artificial currents of every description, I propose the substitution of air-ducts of incorrodible iron, to be inserted horizontally in the walls of at least two opposite sides of the room, within three feet from the floor, and at intervals of about four feet.
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The breakwaters required to do this were built with cribbing of incorrodible metal, affixed to deeply driven metallic piles, and filled with stones along coasts where they were found in abundance or excess.
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But to the last he showed his magnanimity by honoring Cosmo Versál, and upon the latter's death he caused to be carved, high on the brow of the great mountain on which his voyage ended, in gigantic letters, cut deep in the living rock, and covered with shining, incorrodible levium, an inscription that will transmit his fame to the remotest posterity:
The Second Deluge 1890
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The breakwaters required to do this were built with cribbing of incorrodible metal, affixed to deeply driven metallic piles, and filled with stones along coasts where they were found in abundance or excess.
A journey in other worlds A romance of the future John Jacob Astor 1888
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