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irretrievable

adj

Etymology

From ir- + retrievable.

  1. derived from *tropō✻
  2. derived from retrover
  3. suffixed as retrievable — “retrieve + able”
  4. formed as irretrievable — “ir- + retrievable”

Definitions

  1. Not retrievable

    Not retrievable; irrecoverable; irreparable

    • an irretrievable loss
    • But, having hung him, you cannot unhang him. With all your liability to err, you dare to take a step, which, if wrong at all, is infinitely so, because irretrievable.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for irretrievable. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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