Definition of unsalvageable in English:
unsalvageable
adjectiveʌnˈsalvɪdʒəb(ə)l
Impossible to retrieve or preserve from potential loss or destruction.
as many as 160,000 homes may be unsalvageable
Example sentencesExamples
- Most of the lighting, the heating, cooling, and sound system in the theatre are most likely unsalvageable.
- Two drops of java on his shirt is enough to make the day unsalvageable.
- In his ambivalent report, he notes that many national institutions are "unsalvageable."
- The ship was extensively damaged and deemed unsalvageable.
- Fuel and tankers became so scarce in the spring of 1942 that oil was scavenged from the unsalvageable battleships still resting on the bottom of Battleship Row.
- The psychiatrists and other medical staff avoided this ward, making only the bare minimum of calls and writing off the patients there as unsalvageable.
- Much of the milk, especially single-serves, became warm and was unsalvageable.
- The fire was quickly extinguished, but the motorcycle was reduced to a smoking, unsalvageable cinder.
- By the time they got there, the 106-year-old, three-story gabled house, on the graceful Esplanade, was engulfed in flames and unsalvageable.
- Hardware was found to be worn out and unsalvageable.
Synonyms
unrecoverable, unreclaimable, irretrievable, irredeemable, irrevocable, unrestorable, irremediable, lost, lost and gone, gone for ever, beyond cure, beyond hope, hopeless