Definition of "permanently" []

• In a permanent manner; lastingly. (adverb)
• Forever. (adverb)

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• ""Gerald began - but was interrupted by a piercing whistle which cost him ten percent of his hearing permanently as it did everyone else in a ten-mile radius of the eruption, not that it mattered much because for them ’permanently’ meant the next ten minutes or so until buried by searing lava or suffocated by choking ash - to pee.""
• "Last October, a court in Normandy ruled in favor of his lawsuit to have his name permanently deleted from church records -- making the 71-year-old retiree the first Frenchman to be officially "de-baptized.""
• "Winning cities retain the title permanently, but some cities have won on multiple occasions."