unsweepable
English
Etymology
un- + sweepable
Adjective
unsweepable (not comparable)
- (military) Of a mine: incapable of being located by minesweeping.
- 1997, Eric Grove, The Defeat of the enemy attack upon shipping, 1939-1945, page xxxiv:
- We have begun each of our last two wars with the enemy laying unsweepable mines. I shall not dwell on the unsweepable mine of 1914.
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