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UK
/ɪɹɪtɹˈiːvəbəl/
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ADJECTIVE
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impossible to recover or recoup or overcome
irretrievable errors in judgment
an irretrievable loss
How To Use irretrievable In A Sentence
- an irretrievable loss
- Each felt that there would be something scorching in the words that would recall the irretrievable wrong. IV. Maggie and Lucy. Book VIIThe Final Rescue
- The word rolled right out, like a marble from a jar, a single syllable, irretrievable, irrevocable. Shortcut Man
- Cheles has discerned a valuable link between the phrase "virtutibus itur ad astra," represented at Urbino, and the opened manuscript of Virgil's Aeneid, displayed on the lectern in the Gubbio studiolo. 156 The page shown at Gubbio contains the following passage: "Each has his day appointed; short and irretrievable is the span of life to all: but to lengthen fame by deeds — that is valour's task. Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
- Any carelessness or negligence will bring disaster to our future generations and cause irretrievable losses’.
- The rest of the night I sit there, wondering if I've done something irreparable, lost something irretrievable.
- Once infringement happens, because of rapidness of spreading news, obligee will suffer irretrievable loss.
- Two allegations effected an irretrievable breakdown between Toulouse and the University.
- A couple are legally entitled to divorce after two years when there is an irretrievable breakdown - but only if both parties agree in writing.
- All that we can salvage in the present is the memory, like Gretta's, of moments or events that are inevitably irretrievable.