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Meanings of conquerable in English

Capable of being surmounted or excelled.

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Examples for "superable"
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No inconvenience is less superable by art or diligence than the inclemency of climates, and therefore none affords more proper exercise for this philosophical abstraction.
The Works of Samuel Johnson, in Sixteen Volumes. Volume 04
Usage of conquerable in English
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Hamilton was in the habit of considering every antagonist immediately conquerable.
Alice of Old Vincennes
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Fear, Diane, is a conquerable emotion when a mind and body are properly trained.
My Life, My Tapes
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With prontosil, plagues that had ravaged human beings since history began seemed conquerable and might even be eradicated.
The disappearing spoon: and other true tales of madness, love, a...
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Instead, it roots for its characters, and its readers, by presenting a dystopia that's perhaps inevitable, yet also conquerable.
Wired
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Conqueror of all conquerable earth, yet not always victorious over the heart of a maid was the golden-locked Apollo.
A Book of Myths
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He was quite well aware that it burns only in eyes bent hopefully upon a remote, receding, yet conquerable ideal.
The Brentons
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For she was evidently conquerable, and once matched with him would be the very woman to nerve and sustain him.
Beauchamp's Career — Complete
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And this was not only for the reasons she had had the ready composure to name, but for one less conquerable.
The Shuttle
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When the inner terror sowed in sleep was finally harvested in this marathon public discussion, the terror became more manageable... perhaps even conquerable.
The stand
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Conquerable through the time