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Meanings of uncurable in English

(Of a disease) Impossible to cure.

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Examples for "incurable"
1
You forgot the knave in the wit; and the mistake was incurable.
Guy Rivers: A Tale of Georgia
2
About 40 million people are infected with the incurable AIDS virus worldwide.
Reuters
3
Fatal and incurable, it has affected fewer than 200 people so far.
Reuters
4
Someday they may be used to regrow organs and treat now-incurable diseases.
Wired
5
The disease was the cholera, and the physicians pronounced the case incurable.
Clotel; Or, The President's Daughter
1
And so the altercation in the night went on, over the irremediable.
Chance: A Tale in Two Parts
2
These evils attendant on the poor laws are in some degree irremediable.
An Essay on the Principle of Population
3
The year 1776 thus closed in disaster which seemed to be irremediable.
George Washington
4
If the disease prove irremediable, I must prepare myself for the worst.
New Grub Street
5
Fortunately, the return to saner surroundings occurred before the evil was irremediable.
Balzac
1
It keeps up a perpetual fever in my veins; it frets my immedicable wound; it is instinct with poison.
The Last Man
Usage of uncurable in English
1
Your mother does not believe there are many ills uncurable by good strong soup.
East of eden
2
At sixteen, he writes with all a youth's solemnity of "a hurt of the heart uncurable."
Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 03 / Little J...
3
"They alters calls us 'uncurables,'" moaned Susan.
The Primrose Ring
Uncurable through the time