Unstemmable
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 That cannot be stemmed; being an unstoppable flood. not-comparable
"Mary takes in a screening of Niagara the day she learns she's carrying Ray's baby, and this is only one of many watery images that flow through the book's roiling currents: Bell's struggle with the lake's waves, the unstemmable surges of illicit passion, the rains that come to carry everything in its path."
Example
More examples"Mary takes in a screening of Niagara the day she learns she's carrying Ray's baby, and this is only one of many watery images that flow through the book's roiling currents: Bell's struggle with the lake's waves, the unstemmable surges of illicit passion, the rains that come to carry everything in its path."
Etymology
From un- + stem + -able.
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