IRRETRIEVABLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does irretrievably mean? 

• IRRETRIEVABLY (adverb)
  The adverb IRRETRIEVABLY has 1 sense:

1. in an irretrievable manner

  Familiarity information: IRRETRIEVABLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• IRRETRIEVABLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In an irretrievable manner

Context example:

it is irretrievably lost

Pertainym:

irretrievable (impossible to recover or recoup or overcome)

 Context examples 

I, who irretrievably destroyed thee by destroying all thou lovedst.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Such a marriage would irretrievably blight my son's career, and ruin his prospects.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Had there been in White Fang's nature any possibility, no matter how remote, of his ever coming to fraternise with his kind, such possibility was irretrievably destroyed when he was made leader of the sled-team.

(White Fang, by Jack London)