indelible ink

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   ink that cannot be erased or washed away

   Broaderink

   Narrowermarking ink

Questions about indelible ink

What does indelible ink mean?

indelible ink means "ink that cannot be erased or washed away".

Is indelible ink a common word?

indelible ink is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.