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HOW TO PRONOUNCE

irrevocable

/iˈɹɛvəkəbəl/

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What does irrevocable mean?

adjective

  1. Unable to be retracted or reversed; final.

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IPA pronunciation

/iˈɹɛvəkəbəl/

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Other dictionary pronunciations

/ˌɪɹəˈvoʊkəbəl//ˌɪɹiˈvoʊkəbəl//ˌɪɹəˈvɑkəbəl/
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He had not examined and weighed the right which man takes to dispose of the irrevocable and the irreparable.
Victor HugoLes MisérablesTranslated by Isabel Florence HapgoodProject Gutenberg ebook #135
It is only the historian who can say just when some unnoticed, yet decisive and irrevocable, step was actually accomplished.
Gifford PinchotThe Fight for ConservationProject Gutenberg ebook #11238
More book examples (3)
He had begun to have an alarmed foresight of her irrevocable loss of love for him, and the consequent dreariness of their life.
George EliotMiddlemarchProject Gutenberg ebook #145
A deed done is irrevocable, and its result coinciding in time with the actions of millions of other men assumes an historic significance.
Leo, graf TolstoyWar and PeaceTranslated by Aylmer Maude; Louise MaudeProject Gutenberg ebook #2600
All these patient chemical investigations would tempt me, if the rudimentary equipment of my laboratory and especially the irrevocable flight of age-worn hopes permitted it.
Jean-Henri FabreThe Life of the Fly; With Which are Interspersed Some Chapters of AutobiographyTranslated by Alexander Teixeira de MattosProject Gutenberg ebook #3422