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Answer for the clue "Not to be endured ", 11 letters:
intolerable

Word definitions for intolerable in dictionaries

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 Not tolerable; not capable of being bear or endured; not proper or right to be allowed; insufferable; insupportable; unbearable. 2 Extremely offensive or insulting.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. impossible to tolerate or endure; "an intolerable degree of sentimentality" [ant: tolerable ] completely unacceptable; "this noise is intolerable"

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES an intolerable burden (= very hard to bear ) ▪ Too many exams can place an intolerable burden on young people. an intolerable strain (= too great to bear ) ▪ The cost of these wars put an intolerable strain on the ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Intolerable \In*tol"er*a*ble\, a. [F. intol['e]rable, L. intolerabilis. See In- not, and Tolerable .] 1. Not tolerable; not capable of being borne or endured; not proper or right to be allowed; insufferable; insupportable; unbearable; as, intolerable ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., from Latin intolerabilis "that cannot bear, that cannot be borne," from in- "not, opposite of" (see in- (1)) + tolerabilis "that may be endured," from tolerare "to tolerate" (see toleration ). Related: Intolerably .

Usage examples of intolerable.

He answered not, But writhing with intolerable pain, Convulsed in every limb, and all his face Wrought to distortion with the agony, Turned on his lord a look of wild appeal, The secret half atremble on his lips, Livid and quivering, that waited yet For leave -- for leave to utter it -- one sign -- One word -- one little word -- to ease his pain.

He was faced with the sort of intolerable royal decision that baseborn like me can hardly imagine.

As the skill and daring of the boodlers increased, the situation became intolerable.

The rear troopers leaned back, triggering their cutdown infantry-dragons, sending blasts of intolerable heat rolling up the outer face of the wall.

Damerel would mistake the inexperience which led her to behave so rashly for the boldness of a born Cytherean, and offer her an intolerable insult.

I told him I never expected it to take an hour or more to get our dogs off the ship, and we agreed it was intolerable.

Instead of contenting himself with a moderate contribution, and a military title, which equalled him only to the generals of Theodosius, Attila would proceed to impose a disgraceful and intolerable yoke on the necks of the prostrate and captive Romans, who would then be encompassed, on all sides, by the empire of the Huns.

While in estrus she found being confined intolerable, even though she had always slept in a locked room.

And that almost intolerable mask, the work of a sculptor of Gyrene, where pleasure and pain meet on the same face, and seem to break against each other like two waves on the same rock.

The feeling of numb, nameless terror, rootless desolation, the intolerable sick anguish of homelessness, insecurity, and homesickness, against which he had fought since coming to Paris, and which he had been ashamed and afraid to admit, was now instantly banished.

As a private consultant, she is limited by the medicolegal information presented to her, and the absence of pertinent findingsor the presence of incorrect findingsis intolerable.

I had the idea then that an intolerable situation was the trigger for a parakinetic individual using such abilities.

Autistic children, Lynch had proved, were victims of a physiochemical imbalance which disabled their suppressor-circuitry for sight, hearing, touch, smell, or any combination thereof, flooding their brains with an intolerable avalanche of useless data and shocking them into retreat.

The Jewish converts, or, as they were afterwards called, the Nazarenes, who had laid the foundations of the church, soon found themselves overwhelmed by the increasing multitudes, that from all the various religions of polytheism enlisted under the banner of Christ: and the Gentiles, who, with the approbation of their peculiar apostle, had rejected the intolerable weight of the Mosaic ceremonies, at length refused to their more scrupulous brethren the same toleration which at first they had humbly solicited for their own practice.

The paths of the Rockbound Ways guided him, and he knew that he followed close upon the heels of those he hated, those who had rendered upon him the intolerable insult of his missing hand.