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Definition of intact adjective from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

intact

adjective
 
/ɪnˈtækt/
 
/ɪnˈtækt/
[not usually before noun]
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  1. complete and not damaged synonym undamaged
    • Most of the house remains intact even after two hundred years.
    • He emerged from the trial with his reputation intact.
    Extra Examples
    • The character of the original house is very much intact.
    • The collection should be kept completely intact.
    • The mill machinery is still intact.
    • The team returns largely intact to defend its title.
    • We found the tomb perfectly intact.
    • a group of old army buildings that had been left largely intact
    • a hero who always escaped by the skin of his teeth, emerging miraculously intact after each cliff-hanging episode
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs
    • appear
    • be
    • remain
    adverb
    • remarkably
    • substantially
    • very much
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    Word Originlate Middle English: from Latin intactus, from in- ‘not’ + tactus (past participle of tangere ‘touch’).
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