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Definition of "irreversible" []

  • Impossible to reverse: an irreversible momentum toward open revolution. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "irreversible" in a sentence
  • "Clinton said all that could change if the North Korean government came in from the cold, stopped its provocative behavior and any of its threats towards its neighbors, and take what she called irreversible steps to denuclearize."
  • "He was short, though, on specifics for preventing what he called irreversible catastrophe."
  • "In his youth, my father had caught a terrible disease: streptococcal arthritis, ending in irreversible lesions in the aortic valves."