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for unavoidableFrom The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
Unavoidable \Un`a*void"a*ble\, a.
1. Not avoidable; incapable of being shunned or prevented;
inevitable; necessary; as, unavoidable troubles.
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2. (Law) Not voidable; incapable of being made null or void.
--Blackstone.
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Unavoidable hemorrhage (Med.), hemorrhage produced by the
afterbirth, or placenta, being situated over the mouth of
the womb so as to require detachment before the child can
be born.
[1913 Webster] -- Un`a*void"a*ble*ness, n. --
Un`a*void"a*bly, adv.
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) :
unavoidable
adj 1: impossible to avoid or evade:"inescapable conclusion";
"an ineluctable destiny"; "an unavoidable accident" [syn:
ineluctable, inescapable, unavoidable]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :
34 Moby Thesaurus words for "unavoidable":
certain, definite, destined, determined, fated, fateful, fixed,
indefeasible, ineluctable, ineludible, inescapable, inevasible,
inevitable, inexorable, inflexible, irresistible, irrevocable,
necessary, predestined, predetermined, relentless, resistless,
settled, sure, sure as death, sure as fate, unalterable,
unchangeable, uncontrollable, undeflectable, unevadable,
unpreventable, unstoppable, unyielding
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