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Intact   /ɪntˈækt/   Listen
Intact

adjective
1.
Constituting the undiminished entirety; lacking nothing essential especially not damaged.  Synonyms: entire, integral.  "Was able to keep the collection entire during his lifetime" , "Fought to keep the union intact"
2.
(of a woman) having the hymen unbroken.  Synonym: inviolate.
3.
(used of domestic animals) sexually competent.  Synonym: entire.
4.
Undamaged in any way.



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"Intact" Quotes from Famous Books



... cartridges which I had put in to announce the fire was still intact, and the charge caught the fugitive right in the back,—throwing him forward on the ground, bleeding profusely. He immediately began to claw the earth with his hands and with his knees, as though trying to run on all fours like a rabbit who has been mortally wounded, ...
— Maupassant Original Short Stories (180), Complete • Guy de Maupassant

... in the clearing. There was a low scrub too, but it was a scrub that might be trodden under foot. In two minutes Seth was stooping examining a tent-peg, discolored by weather, but intact, and still holding in the earth where it had been driven. It was but four yards from this to a place where two distinct piles of human bones were lying ...
— The Watchers of the Plains - A Tale of the Western Prairies • Ridgewell Cullum

... country was purified of the blot of slavery, but that, during the stormiest and most perilous crisis in our history, he so conducted the government and so wielded his almost dictatorial power as to leave essentially intact our free institutions in all things that concern the rights and liberties of the citizens. He understood well the nature of the problem. In his first message to Congress he defined it in admirably pointed language: ...
— The Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln, Complete - Constitutional Edition • Abraham Lincoln

... indeed; to be candid, it was much better than was usual with Mr. Trollope, whose understanding of American life and manners was not enlarged by extensive travel in this country. An English tourist's preconceived idea of us is a thing he brings over with him on the steamer and carries home again intact; it is as much a part of his indispensable impedimenta as his hatbox. But Fleabody is excellent; it was probably suggested by Peabody, which may have struck Mr. Trollope as comical (just as Trollope strikes ...
— Ponkapog Papers • Thomas Bailey Aldrich

... gasped, and clapping hand to cheek was relieved to find his whisker yet intact, but for a long moment sat clutching that handful of soft and fleecy hair, staring before him in puzzled wonder, for the hand had seemed so very real he could almost feel it there yet. Presently, ...
— The Definite Object - A Romance of New York • Jeffery Farnol


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