Definitions

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  • adjective Not sinkable.

Etymologies

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non- +‎ sinkable

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Examples

  • The boats were whale boats molded of glass and teflon and made nonsinkable by plastic foam in all dead spaces.

    Time For The Stars Heinlein, Robert A. 1956

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