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unsurvivable
adjective
formaluk /ˌʌn.səˈvaɪ.və.bəl/ us /ˌʌn.sɚˈvaɪ.və.bəl/
(of an accident, injury, disease, or situation) certain to cause death:
Judging by the burned wreckage of the plane, search and rescue workers considered the crash was unsurvivable.
Injuries like this were unsurvivable in previous wars.
They accepted that the patient was in an unsurvivable coma and had no consciousness.
The occupants had just seconds to escape the fire before conditions become unsurvivable.
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survivable
The victim sustained unsurvivable burns from which there was never any chance of recovery.
He warned that an avalanche at this particular site would be unsurvivable.
The system employed to stop the bleeding makes it possible for soldiers to survive injuries that were unsurvivable before.
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antemortem
bereave
bite
bleed out
coroner
death toll
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posthumously
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raise someone from the deadidiom
remains
roadkill
self-extinction
sepulchrally
snuff
toll
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