unsweepable

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English

Etymology

From un- +‎ sweepable.

Adjective

unsweepable (not comparable)

  1. (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.