HOW TO PRONOUNCE
irrevocable
/iˈɹɛvəkəbəl/
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What does irrevocable mean?
adjective
- Unable to be retracted or reversed; final.
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IPA pronunciation
/iˈɹɛvəkəbəl/
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/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.
It is only the historian who can say just when some unnoticed, yet decisive and irrevocable, step was actually accomplished.
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He had begun to have an alarmed foresight of her irrevocable loss of love for him, and the consequent dreariness of their life.
A deed done is irrevocable, and its result coinciding in time with the actions of millions of other men assumes an historic significance.
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.