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Irreparably

Irreparably \Ir*rep"a*ra*bly\, adv. In an irreparable manner.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
irreparably

mid-15c., from irreparable + -ly (2).

Wiktionary
irreparably

adv. Such that it cannot be repaired.

WordNet
irreparably

adv. in an irreparable manner or to an irreparable degree

Usage examples of "irreparably".

Stefan, irreparably tangled in the moment, fought his rescuers, reaching out, demanding to be allowed to save one more, one more from the shelf of the etagere, let me go!

The narcissist is a person who is irreparably traumatised by the behaviour of the most important adults in his life: his parents.

It kept exhausted men at Action Stations all night long, blunting, irreparably perhaps, the last vestiges of the knife-edged vigilance on which the only hope, it was never more, of survival in the Arctic depended.

Both officers were acutely aware of the fact that an officer's or chief's naval career would be irreparably destroyed if either were awarded punishment at mast.

Thomas had kept copies of his deathbed scan file-off-line, in vaults in Geneva and New York-with no explicit purpose in mind, other than the vaguest notion that if something went irreparably wrong with his model, and the source of the problem-a slow virus, a subtle programming error-rendered all of his snapshots suspect, starting life again with no memories since 2045 would be better than nothing.

Thomas had kept copies of his deathbed scan fileoff-line, in vaults in Geneva and New Yorkwith no explicit purpose in mind, other than the vaguest notion that if something went irreparably wrong with his model, and the source of the problema slow virus, a subtle programming errorrendered all of his snapshots suspect, starting life again with no memories since 2045 would be better than nothing.

Despite the strengthenings and general repairs and renovations done by Sir Paul Bigod's men at the Royal Naval Basin and Yards, the caravel had not been either designed or built to be a warship and it was conceivable that hits that might not do any real or lasting harm to Revenge could irreparably damage the far more lightly built ship.