expugnable

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adjective

Able to be overcome, conquered or taken by storm.

OriginLatin expugnabilis →
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Meanings

adjectiveexpugnable (comparative more expugnable, superlative most expugnable)

comparative more expugnable · superlative most expugnable

  1. obsoleteAble to be overcome, conquered or taken by storm.
  2. figurativelyAble to be possessed or overcome.

    Harriet, flattered, wondered if, among the young, expugnable officers who took her out, Edwina could ever find one she would wish to marry.

    1977, Olivia Manning, The Danger Tree (The Levant Trilogy; 1), London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson

Origin

  1. Latinexpugnabilis
  2. Englishexpugnable

Latin expugnabilis.

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APA

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MLA

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Chicago

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