All 3 Uses
impervious
in
Flags of Our Fathers
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- The Japanese had installed more than 750 blockhouses and pillboxes around the island: little igloos of rounded concrete, reinforced with steel rods to make them virtually impervious even to artillery rounds.†
Chpt 1.
- It was the mission of boot camp to quickly convert recruits' naive boyish fervor into something American society had never generated before: a mass-produced, numerically immense cadre of warrior-specialists at once technically sophisticated and emotionally impervious to the horrors of battle.†
Chpt 3.
- The Japanese were building defenses impervious to our bombs.†
Chpt 4. *
Definitions:
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(1)
(impervious) not admitting passage through; or not capable of being affected
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)