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Meanings of insurmountable in English

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inexorável

Impossible to surmount.

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      Examples for "unsurmountable"
      1
      But it at once appeared to him that the obstacle was unsurmountable.
      The Teeth of the Tiger
      2
      I felt his unsurmountable strength beneath the fabric, the strange, unnatural fabric.
      Vittorio, the vampire
      3
      This war is gradually crumbling the once unsurmountable wall of caste.
      "Over the Top," by an American Soldier Who Went / Together with ...
      4
      The want of credit was an unsurmountable obstacle to its progress in every respect.
      An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies o...
      5
      I suppose there are unsurmountable difficulties in making people understand.
      Mufti
      Usage of insurmountable in English
      1
      But there's one serious problem, one insurmountable obstacle that I can't overcome.
      The Complete Rama Omnibus
      2
      That's going to provide some interesting challenges, not insurmountable, Ms Tyson-Nathan said.
      Radio NZ
      3
      However, it seems that one barrier that has proven insurmountable is gender.
      The Guardian
      4
      Yet again South Africa have fallen at a hurdle they found insurmountable.
      The Irish Times
      5
      The gaffe caused a six-day delay in election results, but wasn't insurmountable.
      Wired
      6
      When you're working like a well oiled machine, no challenge is insurmountable.
      Wired
      7
      The knowledge in her breast rose as an insurmountable barrier between them.
      The Price of Things
      8
      It just means researchers have avoided hitting an insurmountable wall, for now.
      Wired
      9
      Again it is a challenge that, from a distance, might seem insurmountable.
      The Guardian
      10
      This might have been OK, were it not for two insurmountable problems.
      The Guardian
      11
      This is not as insurmountable a task as it might first seem.
      The Irish Times
      12
      This double dilemma might seem insurmountable, but we hit upon a solution.
      The cook's illustrated how-to-cook library
      13
      The objection appeared to me insurmountable, and I instantly assented to it.
      The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Volume 07
      14
      And you know, sometimes that's the most insurmountable thing in the world.
      Radio NZ
      15
      He felt a sort of insurmountable longing to abandon the game altogether.
      Around the World in Eighty Days
      16
      Only when your love dies can the barrier between us become insurmountable.
      The Native Born; or, the Rajah's People
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