It is irretrievably lost. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Caren Forbes, who filed for divorce in Bridgeport Superior Court in January, said their marriage was "irretrievably" broken. From Wordnik.com. [SFGate: Top News Stories] Reference
Helen's word could make or mar things irretrievably. From Wordnik.com. [Stories Worth Rereading] Reference
Nevertheless, they knew they had lost irretrievably. From Wordnik.com. [Marjorie Dean, College Sophomore] Reference
(I think the "mature scientists" are irretrievably lost.). From Wordnik.com. [On Handling the Data] Reference
The doctor considered her mind to be irretrievably affected. From Wordnik.com. [The Cryptogram A Novel] Reference
"Until it became irretrievably broken down, us both having tried.". From Wordnik.com. [Charles's Cheatin' Heart] Reference
Daily data backup will ensure schoolwork is not irretrievably lost. From Wordnik.com. [Christopher Burgess: Back to School Safety Tips -- Social Media, Device Security, Malware] Reference
Though he won the case, much of his property was irretrievably lost. From Wordnik.com. [Authors of Greece] Reference
It appears that he considered himself to have 'irretrievably lost caste.'. From Wordnik.com. [Australian Writers] Reference
Worse still, she has irretrievably compromised her position as chancellor. From Wordnik.com. [DeMorning DeBonis: Sept. 13, 2010] Reference
The victims of the habit consider themselves degraded, irretrievably lost. From Wordnik.com. [Woman Her Sex and Love Life] Reference
Divorce papers simply described the relationship as "irretrievably broken". From Wordnik.com. [Tiger Woods announces divorce: 'Our marriage is irretrievably broken'] Reference
Touch seems to be irretrievably bound up with grasping and using, but the touch of. From Wordnik.com. [The Principles of Aesthetics] Reference
The Royalists were scattered to the winds, and their cause was irretrievably lost. From Wordnik.com. [General History for Colleges and High Schools] Reference
If a swimmer be taken with cramp and sink, he is irretrievably dead in five minutes. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847] Reference
I wasn't sure how much of this was true, but suddenly I felt irretrievably vulnerable. From Wordnik.com. [TERRORIST TARGET OR NOT, THE DANGER IS REAL] Reference
It was now or never -- if he hesitated, even for an hour, he might be irretrievably lost. From Wordnik.com. [The Idler Magazine, Volume III., July 1893 An Illustrated Monthly] Reference
Still, it's hard to escape the feeling that Italy has slipped irretrievably into Spain's shadow. From Wordnik.com. [Identity Crisis] Reference
The world tells me that I cannot win your love, that it has been given irretrievably to another. From Wordnik.com. [Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905] Reference
(I would that I had let the doubt creep in earlier), it was in a past that now is irretrievably dead. From Wordnik.com. [April's Lady A Novel] Reference
But to an increasing number of Afghans, the war already appears irretrievably lost, at least in the south. From Wordnik.com. [Karzai Divides Afghanistan in Reaching Out to Taliban] Reference
The roof-tree of his hopes was broken irretrievably, and he gazed down blankly at the ruin around his feet. From Wordnik.com. [Drolls From Shadowland] Reference
They also intensified their efforts to entangle America, irretrievably, in political and economic union with. From Wordnik.com. [The Invisible Government] Reference
A few weeks ago a co-worker of mine accidentally and irretrievably wiped out 1,500 of his own saved messages. From Wordnik.com. [We've Got Mail--Always] Reference
Marion Hayden who had so miserably disgraced herself to-day, were far apart -- in fact irretrievably separated. From Wordnik.com. [The Right Knock A Story] Reference
Environmental experts say that if a big rehabilitation effort isn't begun soon, the marshes may be irretrievably lost. From Wordnik.com. [Fall Of Eden] Reference
And should they be at any time thrown out of the service, more than half of their property would be irretrievably lost. From Wordnik.com. [Ocean Steam Navigation and the Ocean Post] Reference
Two of the pirates were subsequently caught and executed; but the property, worth 10,000 dollars, was irretrievably lost. From Wordnik.com. [Trade and Travel in the Far East or Recollections of twenty-one years passed in Java, Singapore, Australia and China.] Reference
I know my own powers; they are not contemptible; they are not uncultivated; they are simply, and wholly, and irretrievably. From Wordnik.com. [Cord and Creese] Reference
Nothing is so irretrievably lost to a society as the sense of fear it felt about a grave danger that was subsequently coped with. From Wordnik.com. [REAGAN'S ECHO IN HISTORY] Reference
I knew that he was irretrievably in debt, and I had never really feared until that moment that his opposition would take real form. From Wordnik.com. [In Direst Peril] Reference
We learn here, as elsewhere, where it has been attempted, that the hand of man cannot irretrievably make or reclaim the course of a river. From Wordnik.com. [The Automobilist Abroad] Reference
Profit by the sad experience of so many victims of confession who have been irretrievably lost, irrecoverably ruined for time and eternity. From Wordnik.com. [The Priest, The Woman And The Confessional] Reference
Oh, it was too much; we lost our character typo irretrievably that day; half suppressed titters from the squire's pew were not to be borne. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 54, No. 338, December 1843] Reference
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