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irretrievably

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ir·re·triev·a·ble  (r-trv-bl)
adj.
Difficult or impossible to retrieve or recover: Once the ring fell down the drain, it was irretrievable.
irre·trieva·ble·ness, irre·trieva·bili·ty n.
irre·trieva·bly adv.
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Adv.1.irretrievably - in an irretrievable manner; "it is irretrievably lost"
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irretrievably [ɪrɪˈtriːvəblɪ] adv → irremisiblemente


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Fearing that he would again be irretrievably lost, he called aloud to the wild man ahead of him, and in a moment had the satisfaction of seeing him drop lightly to his side from the branches above.
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For a writer of his peculiar philosophic tenets, at all events, the world itself, in truth, must seem irretrievably old or even decadent.
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At the sight of these witnesses, who could not know all the circumstances which had provoked and might justify his offence, Cornelius felt that he was irretrievably lost.
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