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Impermeable

adjective
1.
Preventing especially liquids to pass or diffuse through.  "An impermeable layer of scum" , "A coat impermeable to rain"



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... abolishing of cess-pools and their replacement by water-closets, together with the abolishing of brick drains and their replacement by impermeable and self-cleansing stone-ware pipes, has been attended with an immediate and extraordinary reduction of mortality. Thus, in Lambeth Square, occupied by a superior class of operatives, in the receipt of high wages, the deaths, which in ordinary times ...
— Draining for Profit, and Draining for Health • George E. Waring


Words linked to "Impermeable" :   imperviable, retentive, water-resistant, water-repellent, impermeableness, impermeability, permeable, impervious, tight


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