uncontained
Adjective
Meaning
uncontained (comparative more uncontained, superlative most uncontained)
Not contained; unconstrained
Synonyms
Examples
Around 60 fires were still burning across NSW and Victoria, the country's most populous states, with around half of those classified as uncontained.
An “uncontained” engine failure, in which parts of an engine disintegrate, sometimes spraying debris that can damage or even destroy a plane, is rare.
"(But) for the moment we're not witnessing the uncontained global spread of this virus."
Nearly 8000 residents in Southern California have been forced to evacuate their homes as a wildfire spread uncontained across more than 1600 hectares, the County fire department said.
Early on Monday, more than 130 bushfires were burning across NSW, including more than 60 uncontained.
“For the moment, we are not witnessing the uncontained global spread of this coronavirus, and we are not witnessing large-scale severe disease or death,” Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters in Geneva.