Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In an unrecoverable manner; irrecoverably; incurably.

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  • adverb In an unrecoverable manner, or to an unrecoverable degree

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Examples

  • Waiting even two years to initiate this process may place them unrecoverably behind in the race for personal genomics information and applications.

    Advisory Group Urges Gene Mapping For Soldiers Dan Froomkin 2011

  • Waiting even two years to initiate this process may place them unrecoverably behind in the race for personal genomics information and applications.

    Advisory Group Urges Gene Mapping For Soldiers Dan Froomkin 2011

  • Of all the Shelter nations -- a class which excluded only countries still almost wholly undeveloped, or unrecoverably desert -- Italy appeared to be the least thoroughly entombed.

    A Case Of Conscience Blish, James 1953

  • Of all the Shelter nations -- a class which excluded only countries still almost wholly undeveloped, or unrecoverably desert -- Italy appeared to be the least thoroughly entombed.

    A Case Of Conscience Blish, James 1953

  • You don't even have the physical evidence at either 9/11 crime scene because it was immediately taken away and unrecoverably destroyed.

    Reuters: Top News 2011

  • Ans. Whether it be no punishment for them who have been in so good a way, a way of such tendency unto salvation and such usefulness to the gospel, as those persons are supposed to be in, not to be renewed again to that state and condition, but to be shut up unrecoverably under the power of darkness and unbelief unto eternal wrath, when before they were in a fair way for life and salvation, others will judge besides Mr Goodwin.

    The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed 1616-1683 1966

  • "An I / O operation initiated by the Registry failed unrecoverably.

    Redmond | News 2009

  • "An I / O operation initiated by the Registry failed unrecoverably.

    Microsoft Certified Professional Magazine Online | News 2009

  • "An I / O operation initiated by the Registry failed unrecoverably.

    Redmond | News 2009

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