irrevocably

[ ih-rev-uh-kuh-blee ]

/ ɪˈrɛv ə kə bli /

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adverb

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.

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Origin of irrevocably

irrevocab(le) + -ly

OTHER WORDS FROM irrevocably

non·ir·rev·o·cab·ly, adverb

Words nearby irrevocably

irretrievable, irreverence, irreverent, irreversible, irrevocable, irrevocably, irrigable, irrigate, irrigation, irrigative, irriguous

How to use irrevocably in a sentence

Freedom’s end—the ultimate oppression—is when government takes a life, putting all its power into irrevocably taking away someone else’s.
Sebastian Junger: What We Talk About When We Talk About Freedom|Nathan S. Webster|May 31, 2021|The Daily Beast
Rather than directly acting on genes—irrevocably dicing away or swapping genetic letters—the new CRISPR variant targets the biological machinery that naturally turns genes on or off.
A New CRISPR Tool Flips Genes On and Off Like a Light Switch|Shelly Fan|April 27, 2021|Singularity Hub
Here are the ways that It’s Dark and Hell Is Hot irrevocably changed the hip-hop landscape.
How DMX's It's Dark and Hell Is Hot Changed the Course of Hip-Hop Forever|Andrew R. Chow|April 9, 2021|Time
The way the sector makes money is going to irrevocably change over the next two years.
‘Nothing makes sense anymore’: What’s driving ad tech’s latest consolidation wave|Seb Joseph|February 23, 2021|Digiday

At the top of 2020, the coronavirus crisis, an event of seismic proportions, irrevocably changed the worlds of retail, commerce, media and marketing.
Digiday Resilience Awards winners: How brands protected their workers and gave back to the world in a time of crisis|Digiday Awards|October 8, 2020|Digiday
Just when the Putins left the Soviet Union, that country began to change drastically and irrevocably.
How the Fall of the Berlin Wall Radicalized Putin|Masha Gessen|November 9, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Despite the one concussion combined, their careers have been irrevocably influenced by injury.
The Injuries That Made Peyton Manning and Tom Brady|Ben Teitelbaum|January 19, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Also, the long running fan favorite , the Ethiopian Immigration, was “irrevocably” canceled… for the fourth time.
The Game Show of Israeli Politics|Don Futterman|August 2, 2013|DAILY BEAST
That new cloud-computing technology will irrevocably change the community banking system.
Business Longreads for the Week of June 8, 2013|William O’Connor|June 9, 2013|DAILY BEAST
If you have to ask whether Star Trek is like Star Wars, you are horribly, irrevocably misguided.
‘Star Trek’ for Dummies: Get Ready for ‘Into Darkness’ With Our Primer|Sujay Kumar|May 14, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Now that all is irrevocably ended, they a rise naturally out of what has taken place.
Camille (La Dame aux Camilias)|Alexandre Dumas, fils
To gain his Dragon Maid,—to know that in this life she was irrevocably his,—that was Tatsu's one conscious thought.
The Dragon Painter|Mary McNeil Fenollosa
John just slipped out of my grasp—Zloomph and all—and was gone—completely and irrevocably gone.
The Holes and John Smith|Edward W. Ludwig
There is no proposition of which it can be asserted that every human mind must eternally and irrevocably believe it.
A System of Logic: Ratiocinative and Inductive|John Stuart Mill
All that thou hast loved, to which thou hast given thyself irrevocably, is falling, going to pieces.
Dream Tales and Prose Poems|Ivan Turgenev