| 单词 | indestructible |
| 释义 | indestructible (once / 3473 pages) adj Something that's indestructible can't be broken or destroyed. Your indestructible winter boots last year after year, stomping through snow and ice and salt without ever falling apart. Things that are indestructible last for so long that it seems impossible to break them. Your relationship with your best friend might feel indestructible if your bond is strong and true, and your junky old car might also seem indestructible if it never dies no matter how many miles you drive it. The word indestructible comes from Latin roots, the prefix in, or "not," and destruere, "tear down or demolish" or literally "un-build." WORD FAMILYindestructible: indestructibility, indestructibly+/destroy: destroyable, destroyed, destroyer, destroying, destroys, destructible, destruction, destructive, self-destroy/destroyable: undestroyable/destroyed: destroyedest/destroyer: destroyers/destructible: destructibility, indestructible/destruction: destructions, self-destruction/destructive: destructively, destructiveness, self-destructive USAGE EXAMPLESA scientist resists delivering a weapon of mass destruction into totalitarian hands until he is forced to comply, and then sabotages his supposedly indestructible masterpiece. Salon(Dec 17, 2016) Or do you need a waterproof and practically indestructible wrapper? Seattle Times(Dec 14, 2016) South Africa’s indestructible president survives another bid to oust him. Los Angeles Times(Dec 02, 2016) 1adj not easily destroyed Syn|Ant undestroyable not capable of being destroyed destructible easily destroyed abolishablecapable of being abolished destroyablecapable of being destroyed 2adj very long lasting Syn durable, perdurable, undestroyable imperishable not perishable |
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