irreparably

Examples

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• Hostess claims the strike has irreparably damaged production and made it impossible for it to continue operating.

  Blog text (21)

• But what he's just done is change your life irreparably, maybe forever.

• And so I knew that that damaged person was irreparably mine, and everything went dead again inside me.

  Fiction book (1991)

• The storm and its consequences may have irreparably severed the organic connection between community and culture.

  Academic text (2007)

• Epictetus was a slave as a boy, and his cruel master irreparably damaged one of his legs.

  Academic text (2001)

• The political base for global liberalization could be severely and irreparably eroded.

  Academic text (2000)

• A few well-placed and publicized bombs, assassinations, and the like almost irreparably destroyed any future in that country.

  Blog text (15)

• Illicit archaeological excavations in Africa irreparably undermine the historical sources of the continent and those of humankind as a whole.

  Academic text (2000)

• The contemporary indios, the Creole patriot argued indignantly, were irreparably cut off from their noble heritage by the intervening period of colonial slavery and corruption.

  Academic text (2018)

• The hurricane irreparably destroyed many homes in the coastal town.

Synonyms

I

irrevocably

vsirreparably

16 7.7

So that something cannot be changed or undone

is about being impossible to repair rather than irreversible change

I

irreversibly

vsirreparably

7 6.4

In a way that cannot be changed back

is about being impossible to repair rather than impossible to reverse

I

irretrievably

vsirreparably

5 8.1

In a way that cannot be changed back

is about being impossible to repair rather than only impossible to retrieve

I

irredeemably

vsirreparably

3 7.5

In a way that you can never change or fix

is about being impossible to repair rather than hopelessly bad or unacceptable

I

irremediably

vsirreparably

1 8.4

In a way that cannot be fixed

is about being impossible to repair rather than lacking a cure

I

irrecoverably

vsirreparably

1 8.8

In a way that cannot be given back or fixed

is about being impossible to repair rather than only not being regained

U

unrecoverably

vsirreparably

7.8

In a way that cannot be fixed or returned to how it was before

is about being impossible to repair rather than only loss of previous state

U

unredeemably

vsirreparably

9.6

In a way nothing can save or make better

is about being impossible to repair rather than moral or social acceptability

How Recoverable

irretrievably

5 8.1

irreparably

9 7.5

irreversibly

7 6.4

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology