Crossword-Solution: IMPERMEABLE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Impermeable | a. | Not permeable; not permitting passage, as of a fluid. through its substance; impervious; impenetrable; as, India rubber is impermeable to water and to air. |
We have 9 clues for the answer “IMPERMEABLE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| preventing especially liquids to pass or diffuse through | 1 answer |
| Not allowing liquid to pass through | 2 answers |
| watertight | 13 answers |
| waterproof | 18 answers |
| airtight | 31 answers |
| proof | 51 answers |
| Impervious | 64 answers |
| Impenetrable | 70 answers |
| Hard | 107 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AETRE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with IMPERMEABLE (5)
Whilst it is not an impermeable barrier to the passage of poisons, the placenta offers a varying degree of obstruction: it allows copper and lead to pass easily, arsenic with greater difficulty.
The glans was riddled with holes, and numerous fistulae existed on the inferior surface of the urethra, the meatus being impermeable.
When the blood has dried and caked, it forms a hard and fairly impermeable surface, on which they paint the sacred design of the emu totem, especially the parts of the bird which they like best to eat, namely, the fat and the eggs.
Modern anatomists know that the heart is divided into two approximately equal parts by an impermeable septum of tough fibres.
Yet it was not altogether a precise comparison, because, as the reader will speedily see, there were interruptions of this generally impermeable resistance, means of getting through the barrier to the material world again.
Quotes with IMPERMEABLE (3)
The offer of certainty, the offer of complete security, the offer of an impermeable faith that can’t give way, is an offer of something not worth having. I want to live my life taking the risk all the time that I don’t know anything like enough yet; that I haven’t understood enough; that I can’t know enough; that I’m always hungrily operating on the margins of a potentially great harvest of future knowledge and wisdom. I wouldn’t have it any other way.
His eyes are covered by impermeable marble, a solidity that can never be breached. You think there is gold and warmth behind the facade of cold, but if only you could see your reflection in the marble. You would see how you burn, how brightly you glow, enough to incinerate anyone else whole.
I think the most important thing I do in my professional life today is delivering public, impermeable "no" s and sticking to them. I say no to people who prioritize being cool over being good. I say no to misogynists who want to weaponize my body against me. I say no to men who feel entitled to my attention and reverence, who treat everything the light touches as a resource for them to burn. I say no to religious zealots who insist that I am less important than an embryo. I s…
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (2004).