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pregnable

[preg-nuh-buhl] / ˈprɛg nə bəl /


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Or would the 50-odd Allied divisions still in Britain mount an entirely new thrust at the demonstrably pregnable Atlantic Wall?

From Time Magazine Archive

This rule rigidly defined the Nazis' plan of action in the Balkans: cut Yugoslavia from Greece, pro-Nazi Croatia from anti-Nazi Serbia, pregnable Thrace from defensible central Greece, the tough Greeks from the tough British.

From Time Magazine Archive

It makes a breach in the blank wall, and the whole is now pregnable.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 37, November, 1860 by Various

The newcomer's reserve was indeed pregnable to no assault I could devise.

From The Boss of Little Arcady by Harry Leon Wilson

He had committed to memory the smallest details, the ammunition supplies of each fort, the number of guns, the garrison, the pregnable and impregnable sides.

From Man on the Box by Harold MacGrath




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