irrecoverable

Adjective

Meaning

Not capable of being recovered, regained, or remedied; irreparable; as, an irrecoverable loss, debt, or injury.

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Another school declares that all time has already transpired and that our life is only the crepuscular and no doubt falsified and mutilated memory or reflection of an irrecoverable process. Jorge Luis Borges

The past is only partly irrecoverable. The clerisy should accord it at least as much courtesy as they offer to the future. Robertson Davies

Life is brutal that way...the loss of irrecoverable moments amid trivia and distraction. Dan Simmons

I put a bullet into the back of the crocodile's neck just behind the head, thus killing it. If a crocodile is hit in any other part of its anatomy it disappears into the water and is irrecoverable. Louis Leakey

During Operation Kutuzov, Soviet losses amounted to 112,529 irrecoverable casualties and 317,361 medical casualties, for a total loss of 429,890 men.sfn The Western Front reported 25,585 irrecoverable casualties and 76,856 medical casualties. Source: Internet

The Central Front lost 47,771 irrecoverable casualties and 117,271 medical casualties.sfn Soviet losses during Operation Polkovodets Rumyantsev totaled 255,566 men, with 71,611 listed as irrecoverable casualties and 183,955 as medical casualties. Source: Internet

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