Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Impossible to reverse.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not reversible; incapable of being reversed or inverted.
- Not to be recalled or annulled.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Incapable of being reversed or turned about or back; incapable of being made to run backward.
- adjective Incapable of being reversed, recalled, repealed, or annulled.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
Incapable of beingreversed orturned about or back; incapable of being made torun backward . - adjective Incapable of being reversed,
recalled ,repealed , orannulled . - adjective thermodynamics Incapable of being reversed to the original state without consumption of free energy and increase of
entropy .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective incapable of being reversed
Etymologies
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Examples
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Clinton said all that could change if the North Korean government came in from the cold, stopped its provocative behavior and any of its threats towards its neighbors, and take what she called irreversible steps to denuclearize.
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Clinton said all that could change if the North Korean government came in from the cold, stopped its provocative behavior and any of its threats towards its neighbors, and take what she called irreversible steps to denuclearize.
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He was short, though, on specifics for preventing what he called irreversible catastrophe.
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The time left to stem the warming trend before it becomes irreversible is short.
Harry Reid, The Man Who Never Says Goodbye The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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In the West, the medieval era appeared to be in irreversible decline as early as the thirteenth century.
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It deprives the public of our rights to be included in irreversible decisions concerning our own land.
Montana To Consider Bill Protecting Fish Habitat and Forest Jobs 2009
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In his youth, my father had caught a terrible disease: streptococcal arthritis, ending in irreversible lesions in the aortic valves.
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The number of bookstores peaked and is in "irreversible decline," Cader says.
Decade in books: Writers work magic, delivery has transformed 2009
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It deprives the public of our rights to be included in irreversible decisions concerning our own land.
Montana To Consider Bill Protecting Fish Habitat and Forest Jobs 2009
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The post-1945 Western regime, whose victory over all pre-Reformation or anti-Enlightenment forces appears final and irreversible, is the Whig millennium.
mollusque commented on the word irreversible
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March 13, 2009