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He suffered an irreversible loss of vision.
The crisis has done irreversible harm to the countries' relations.
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Patients with primary resistance may not respond to inhibitor therapy if their T cells are already forced into irreversible exhaustion.
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William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 25 Oct. 2024
Finally, blockchain smart contracts—essentially, self-executing, irreversible exchanges of cryptocurrency—automatically process the trades and distribute money to the winners.
—Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2024
Understanding death in minimal terms means grasping that dead individuals don’t do the sorts of things that living beings of their kind typically do, and that this is an irreversible state.
—Susana Monsó, TIME, 18 Oct. 2024
Read through the terms carefully, as deleting your account is permanent and irreversible.
—Lars Daniel, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2024
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William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 25 Oct. 2024
Finally, blockchain smart contracts—essentially, self-executing, irreversible exchanges of cryptocurrency—automatically process the trades and distribute money to the winners.
—Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2024
Understanding death in minimal terms means grasping that dead individuals don’t do the sorts of things that living beings of their kind typically do, and that this is an irreversible state.
—Susana Monsó, TIME, 18 Oct. 2024
Read through the terms carefully, as deleting your account is permanent and irreversible.
—Lars Daniel, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2024
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irreversible
adjective
ir·re·vers·ible
ˌir-i-ˈvər-sə-bəl 
: impossible to reverse
an irreversible chemical reaction
irreversible damage
Medical Definition
irreversible
adjective
ir·re·vers·ible
ˌir-i-ˈvər-sə-bəl
: incapable of being reversed : not reversible
an irreversible medical procedure
: as
a
: impossible to make run or take place backward
irreversible chemical syntheses
b
of a colloid
: incapable of undergoing transformation from sol to gel or vice versa
c
of a pathological process
: of such severity that recovery is impossible
irreversible brain damage
Legal Definition
irreversible
adjective
ir·re·ver·si·ble
ˌir-rə-ˈvər-sə-bəl
: not reversible
an irreversible decision
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