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indelibly

When something happens or is done indelibly, it can't be erased or removed. If you label your sleeping bag indelibly with your name, you do it in permanent ink.

A memory might be indelibly etched in your mind — in other words, it's there for good. And when a serial number is indelibly engraved on your new computer, it can't be removed. Indelibly comes from the Latin indelebilis, a combination of in-, "not," and delebilis, "able to be destroyed," which is rooted in delere, "destroy or blot out."

Definitions of indelibly
  1. adverb
    in an indelible manner
    “this tradition has left its mark indelibly upon the social, political, educational and industrial fabric of this country”
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