An irretrievable loss. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Each felt that there would be something scorching in the words that would recall the irretrievable wrong. From Wordnik.com. [The Mill on the Floss] Reference
It is true that most cases can be solved through negotiations but sometimes the marriage is broken in law terms irretrievable break down of marriage. From Wordnik.com. [Collaborative Family Law v. The Hartshornes : Law is Cool] Reference
Already as early as October 7, 1833, he fears that his health is "irretrievable;" he gets but five hours a night of. From Wordnik.com. [John Quincy Adams American Statesmen Series] Reference
It follows an "irretrievable" rift between Allen and his co-owners, who he has accused of operating an "old boys 'club" which is letting down the club and its supporters. From Wordnik.com. [News round-up] Reference
Some files of old articles, though, were irretrievable. From Wordnik.com. [Web Attack In The Workplace] Reference
But an irretrievable split on the remainder seemed inevitable. From Wordnik.com. [Theodore Roosevelt and His Times] Reference
Oh, the delicious blunders one sees when they are irretrievable!. From Wordnik.com. [Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century] Reference
Has The World's Fastest Human suddenly lost an irretrievable step?. From Wordnik.com. [A Long Leap Of Faith] Reference
The cause of the planters had gone down in irretrievable disaster. From Wordnik.com. [Expansion and Conflict] Reference
I love one-stop funds because they save you from irretrievable mistakes. From Wordnik.com. [ONE FUND IS ALL YOU NEED] Reference
State is once constituted the act is final and any mistake irretrievable. From Wordnik.com. [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference
The wonderful name of Drake saved the expedition from irretrievable disaster. From Wordnik.com. [Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea] Reference
Brion's mind contained nothing but despair and the pain of irretrievable loss. From Wordnik.com. [Planet of the Damned] Reference
"But supposing that he took an irretrievable step, and then changed his mind?". From Wordnik.com. [Mrs. Day's Daughters] Reference
Every moment precious; every quarter of an hour lost an irretrievable misfortune. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, June 13, 1891] Reference
Thus he was saved from what might have been an irretrievable financial misfortune. From Wordnik.com. [Hidden Treasures Or, Why Some Succeed While Others Fail] Reference
Her iniquities, long accumulating, were bringing upon her an irretrievable disaster. From Wordnik.com. [Christianity and Progress] Reference
Waterloo was merely the scaffold: he was under irretrievable condemnation long before. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847] Reference
This lapse was even worse than that of Sir Richard's son, because it seemed irretrievable. From Wordnik.com. [Women of the Country] Reference
Ireland -- and I do not limit this to Ireland -- are to be saved from otherwise irretrievable ruin. From Wordnik.com. [If Not Silver, What?] Reference
Rubicon, that mythical river of irretrievable self-committal, hesitating to enter its turbid waters. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 25, November, 1859] Reference
The hurricane had come by night, and with one fell swash had made an irretrievable sop of everything. From Wordnik.com. [Short Stories for English Courses] Reference
This is the living telling the dead how much they are loved and how irretrievable the loss of them is. From Wordnik.com. [The Haunting] Reference
Whether freighted richly with the essential, or merely burdened with the ineffectual, it is equally irretrievable. From Wordnik.com. [The Life Radiant] Reference
He, however, did not believe that the House of Lords had as yet placed itself in a position of irretrievable error. From Wordnik.com. [The Grand Old Man] Reference
O Lord, teach me to select my pleasures with care, that I may not plunge into joyful moments that are irretrievable. From Wordnik.com. [Leaves of Life For Daily Inspiration] Reference
Now, with Obama's presidency at risk of becoming an irretrievable failure, Project Vote is trying to keep "hope" alive. From Wordnik.com. [Project Bloat] Reference
One good result had come from the wood-shed catastrophe: the high comb had been shattered into irretrievable fragments. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866] Reference
Consequently his prosperity is their prosperity, and his ruin would be an irretrievable disaster, not a benefit, to them. From Wordnik.com. [Autographs for Freedom, Volume 2 (of 2) (1854)] Reference
They sent Gylippus, an able commander, whose generalship contributed largely to the total and irretrievable defeat that the. From Wordnik.com. [General History for Colleges and High Schools] Reference
Insult and rejoinder break out, and it is within a hair's breadth of the irretrievable plunge that the king speaks his mind. From Wordnik.com. [Epic and Romance Essays on Medieval Literature] Reference
I understand your views now, says the planter: but for emancipation, your colonies would have sunk to irretrievable destruction. From Wordnik.com. [Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject] Reference
I do not know any case in American history where the opposite course has not resulted in irretrievable injury to him who adopted it. From Wordnik.com. [Forty-Six Years in the Army] Reference
To Bakahenzie the report was more alarming than to the others, inasmuch as it appeared to portend the irretrievable loss of his power. From Wordnik.com. [Witch-Doctors] Reference
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