Definition of irrevocably in English:
irrevocably
adverb ɪˈrɛvəkəbliˌɪ(r)ˈrɛvəkəbli
In a way that cannot be changed, reversed, or recovered.
my life changed irrevocably in an instant
our environment will be irrevocably damaged
Example sentencesExamples
- The hands of the clock move irrevocably towards the three quarter.
- The light itself acts as a memory screen to a world irrevocably gone.
- Smith, it seems, has been irrevocably altered.
- The Japan portrayed here is being subtly, perhaps irrevocably, encroached upon by Western culture.
- From his furtive and imperfect glimpses, he projects a continuity, itself irrevocably impossible.
- They struggled in secret to understand a psychological inheritance which threatened to set them irrevocably apart from mainstream society.
- Deprived irrevocably of what he wants most, that which is the source of his psychosomatic illness, he becomes truly ill.
- The unhappy creature of our story was still hidden in her mother's womb when her state in life had already been irrevocably settled.
- The big beasts have irrevocably shouldered the burden of architectural eminence.
- His world has been irrevocably broken by paternity.
Definition of irrevocably in US English:
irrevocably
adverbˌi(r)ˈrevəkəblēˌɪ(r)ˈrɛvəkəbli
In a way that cannot be changed, reversed, or recovered.
my life changed irrevocably in an instant
our environment will be irrevocably damaged
Example sentencesExamples
- His world has been irrevocably broken by paternity.
- The light itself acts as a memory screen to a world irrevocably gone.
- Deprived irrevocably of what he wants most, that which is the source of his psychosomatic illness, he becomes truly ill.
- Smith, it seems, has been irrevocably altered.
- They struggled in secret to understand a psychological inheritance which threatened to set them irrevocably apart from mainstream society.
- The Japan portrayed here is being subtly, perhaps irrevocably, encroached upon by Western culture.
- From his furtive and imperfect glimpses, he projects a continuity, itself irrevocably impossible.
- The unhappy creature of our story was still hidden in her mother's womb when her state in life had already been irrevocably settled.
- The big beasts have irrevocably shouldered the burden of architectural eminence.
- The hands of the clock move irrevocably towards the three quarter.