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单词 indelibly
释义
indelibly
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adv

When something happens or is done indelibly, it can't be erased or removed. If you label your sleeping bag indelibly with your name, you do it in permanent ink.
A memory might be indelibly etched in your mind — in other words, it's there for good. And when a serial number is indelibly engraved on your new computer, it can't be removed. Indelibly comes from the Latin indelebilis, a combination of in-, "not," and delebilis, "able to be destroyed," which is rooted in delere, "destroy or blot out."
WORD FAMILY
indelible: indelibly+/delible: indelible
USAGE EXAMPLES
As a discerning playwright, in a different context, once indelibly put it: Attention must be paid.
Wall Street Journal(Dec 03, 2016)
And day by day, insult by insult, threat by threat, the standards to which we hold our presidential candidates were gradually and indelibly redrawn.
Salon(Nov 27, 2016)
The concept may be indelibly Danish, but the hype has been made in London.
The Guardian(Nov 22, 2016)
adv in an indelible manner
this tradition has left its mark indelibly upon the social, political, educational and industrial fabric of this country
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