indelible
/ɪnˈdɛləbl/ adjective C2- Having the quality of being difficult to delete, remove, wash away, blot out, or efface. · This ink spot on the contract is indelible.· This stain on my shirt is indelible.
- Incapable of being canceled, lost, or forgotten. · That horrible story just might make an indelible impression on the memory.
- Incapable of being annulled.
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“But,” she exclaimed, suddenly, “arsenic is indelible, indestructible; in whatsoever way it is absorbed, it will be found again in the body of the victim from the moment when it has been taken in sufficient quantity to cause death.”
Fortunately, as regarded this circumstance at least, his painful past gave to his countenance an indelible sadness, and the glimmerings of gayety seen beneath this cloud were indeed but transitory.
Each step he trod oppressed his heart with fresh emotion; his first and most indelible recollections were there; not a tree, not a street, that he passed but seemed filled with dear and cherished memories.
While English is the dominant tongue today, the indigenous Irish language has left an indelible mark on its vocabulary and structure.
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