Meanings
- not comparableNot submersible.
The car will be prepared for all emergencies by making it unsubmersible and furnishing it with runners for use as a sledge.
1890 December 20, “To the North in a Balloon”, in Scientific American, volume 63, page 3922 more examples
The last problem with dikes was that dike failure was seldom included in waring plans, primarilty because they often are believed unsubmersible by riverside dwellers.
2008, David G. Proverbs, C. A. Brebbia, Edmund Charles Penning-Rowsell, Flood Recovery, Innovation and Response, page 115Observation results indicated that drums/buckets or unsubmersible motor pumps were often used to collect water from dug wells/mixed dug well-boreholes.
2010, Kensuke Fukushi, K M Hassan, R Honda, Sustainability in Food and Water: An Asian Perspective, page 128 - not comparableBuoyant and resilient; unquashable.
"He is unsubmersible." And he adds: "He believes in his wife, his belief is unshakable."
1980, Stuart Schneiderman, How Lacan's Ideas Are Used in Clinical Practice, page 512 more examples
It is conceivable that there might be in man a virtue as strong and buoyant, as unconquerable and unsubmersible, as the physical characteristics of his race, like them remaining insistently dominant through all the ages.
1914, Katherine Clemmons Gould, The crystal rood, page 7his work — both positive and negative — tolled the knell of European empires in the long run to replace them by the unsubmersible nations of today.
1991, The Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography - Volume 17, page 85
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