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Repugn vs Inexpugnable - What's the difference?

repugn | inexpugnable |

As a verb repugn

is (archaic) to oppose or resist.

As an adjective inexpugnable is

impossible to eliminate or destroy; impregnable.

repugn

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • (archaic) To oppose or resist
  • Derived terms

    * repugnance * repugnancy * repugnant

    inexpugnable

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Impossible to eliminate or destroy; impregnable.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1840, author=Thomas Carlyle, title=Heroes and Hero Worship, chapter=, edition= citation
  • , passage=My one hope of the world, my inexpugnable consolation in looking at the miseries of the world, is that this is altering.}}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1911, author=H. G. Wells, title=The Country of the Blind, And Other Stories, chapter=, edition= citation
  • , passage=It crept into one's mind, a distress as vague and inexpugnable as a sea fog on a spring morning, and presently one shivered and wanted to go indoors...}}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1915, author=Joseph Conrad, title=Victory, chapter=, edition= citation
  • , passage=This seemed to be an inexpugnable refuge, where we could live untroubled and learn to know each other."}}

    Derived terms

    * inexpugnability * inexpugnably