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Definition of "immedicable" [im•med•i•ca•ble]

  • Incurable. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "immedicable" in a sentence
  • "In the south, the disease, virulent and immedicable, had nearly annihilated the race of man; storm and inundation, poisonous winds and blights, filled up the measure of suffering."
  • "It keeps up a perpetual fever in my veins; it frets my immedicable wound; it is instinct with poison."
  • "The evil was so wide-spreading, so violent and immedicable, that no care, no prevention could be judged superfluous, which even added a chance to our escape."