irrevocably

[ih-rev-uh-kuh-blee]

adverb

1. in a way that can never be reversed, undone, or canceled; permanently.

   The huge manuscript is unbound looseleaf and there are no page numbers, so if you drop it the whole thing is irrevocably scrambled.

Other Word Forms

• nonirrevocably adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of irrevocably¹

irrevocab(le) ( def. ) + -ly

Example Sentences

What transpired on the night of the blast and the days after has irrevocably changed his family's life, he told the BBC.

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The entire group has had their lives irrevocably changed by violence.

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Graham observed that outside the U.S., “nation” is often irrevocably tied to ethnicity, and “the conceptual shift…is part of a broader rhetorical change on the right.”

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“I just hope the criminal justice system doesn’t irrevocably damage that relationship.”

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Life will irrevocably change for millions of Latinos in Southern California and beyond because of what the Supreme Court just ruled.

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