(a.) Not retrievable; irrecoverable; irreparable; as, an irretrievable loss.
Example Sentences:
(1) Anaerobically, lactaldehyde is reduced by an NADH-COUPLED REDUCTASE TO L-1,2-propanediol, which is lost into the medium irretrievably, even when oxygen is subsequently introduced.
(2) To define more clearly a salvageable patient for possible utilization of a left ventricular assist device prior to multiple organ failure and irretrievability during postcardiotomy intra-aortic balloon pumping (IABP), we made prospective and retrospective analyses to determine prognostic indices for survival.
(3) Many ministers believe his position is irretrievable, while others believe Brown may eventually recover if voters look to the future.
(4) In his strongly worded judgement, Wildblood listed the council’s multiple mistakes point by point and warned that the child’s chance of a permanent family had been irretrievably shattered.
(5) Complications in the furture are likely to be progressive sclerosis from irretrievable fragments and knots of the artificial materials and conceivably malignant degeneration of tissues of the scalp.
(6) Inhibitor activity was registered even if sera were not present in cell culture continuously but only 6 hours of preincubation; then their action was irretrievable.
(7) His lack of communication and isolating people and strictly controlling all information has made your party less effective.” Labor MP Nicole Manison said the government was “irretrievable.” “It has been very clear.. that there are some deep problems within the government and they are not going to be fixed, it’s gone too far,” she said.
(8) He said: "The [MoJ] proposals will undermine the position of the independent bar, irretrievably and forever.
(9) He was also dissatisfied with Moody’s role and it quickly became apparent during his talks with Parish that the damage was irretrievable.
(10) Clarity on this point would enable Britain to start making a crucial point to our counterparties: the four freedoms of the single market are neither immutable nor irretrievably interdependent.
(11) In the divorce filing released on Wednesday, Murdoch's lawyers said that the "relationship between husband and wife had broken down irretrievably".
(12) Bruce is understood to have left with a heavy heart but felt his position had become untenable and that his much-soured relationship with Ehab Allam, the vice-chairman, was irretrievable.
(13) With the game seemingly irretrievable, Rodgers sent on Daniel Sturridge at half-time.
(14) Cytoplasm and organelles become entrapped in the upward movement of granules towards the cell apex, become irretrievably isolated, and are sloughed into the crypt lumen.
(15) He said formal consultation with Indigenous leaders, which has not yet begun, ought to have begun months ago, and the relationship between the government and leadership structures in the Kimberley had now “broken down irretrievably”.
(16) Clegg will try to persuade the electorate the party has changed irretrievably, saying: "The past is gone and it isn't coming back.
(17) Surgical therapy has three roles in disseminated atheroembolism: prevention of further atheroembolism with its attendant peripheral or visceral organ damage; amputation or resection of irretrievably damaged tissue; and provision of chronic hemodialysis access.
(18) The UK would be irretrievably damaged and could face separation if the electorate votes to leave the European Union in the referendum planned by David Cameron after next year’s general election, a leading pro-Europe Tory has said.
(19) Thus, it appears that most CTL precursor cells may be lost or irretrievably inactivated in the spleens of late TBH mice.
(20) Carelessness will result in evidence being irretrievably lost.
Shipwreck
Definition:
(n.) The breaking in pieces, or shattering, of a ship or other vessel by being cast ashore or driven against rocks, shoals, etc., by the violence of the winds and waves.
(n.) A ship wrecked or destroyed upon the water, or the parts of such a ship; wreckage.
(n.) Fig.: Destruction; ruin; irretrievable loss.
(v. t.) To destroy, as a ship at sea, by running ashore or on rocks or sandbanks, or by the force of wind and waves in a tempest.
(v. t.) To cause to experience shipwreck, as sailors or passengers. Hence, to cause to suffer some disaster or loss; to destroy or ruin, as if by shipwreck; to wreck; as, to shipwreck a business.
Example Sentences:
(1) Up to 100 children may have died in the weekend’s catastrophic shipwreck in the Mediterranean, a relief agency has said as prosecutors in Sicily arrested the alleged commander of the wooden fishing vessel and a member of his crew.
(2) On Thursday, EU leaders will hold an emergency summit in Brussels in the wake of a shipwreck off Libya last weekend that authorities believe may have killed more than 800 migrants .
(3) Video: Interview with the man who found the wing fragment The on 19 December 2015, an “anomalous sonar contact” was identified by the JACC, with analysis suggesting the object was likely to be man-made, probably a shipwreck.
(4) These shipwrecks cannot be therefore considered mere ‘incidents’.
(5) A spokesperson for the organiation in Rome, Flavio Di Giacomo, said the number of shipwrecks reflected the poor state of the boats used by the refugees and the current harsh weather conditions at sea.
(6) Visiting a shipwreck in Stockholm: history, maths, science, English and geography.
(7) Among the events planned is a mass at a church where many of the survivors were taken for shelter on the night of the shipwreck.
(8) I find out about the shipwrecks through different mediums.
(9) At the time of the shipwreck, the majority of the women and children were in the hold to protect them from cold,” said Flavio Di Giacomo, a spokesman for the IOM.
(10) "It has disturbed the community divided it a bit," she said, explaining that there is a feeling among islanders outside of the port that they have lost out in the interest the shipwreck has brought.
(11) There are rumours of shipwrecks buried hundreds of metres below where I was pitched, and tales of Vikings turning their ships in a nearby bay to redouble their efforts at invading Britain.
(12) Ali added that a close friend had died in a shipwreck while trying to reach Australia three years ago.
(13) It has been suggested that Shakespeare's lifelong concern with themes of exile and separation, from the shipwreck that splits open The Comedy of Errors to the relentless journeying that propels the final romances, is a sign of his remarkable powers of empathy, even, as the critic Northrop Frye repeatedly argued, a mythic image of our voyage through life.
(14) Italy’s prime minister called for an emergency European summit this week to deal with the deepening migrant crisis off its southern coast after as many as 950 men, women and children were feared to have drowned in a Mediterranean shipwreck.
(15) The RSC's mini-season of three "shipwreck plays" – Comedy of Errors , Twelfth Night and The Tempest – illuminates this most potent of Shakespearean themes .
(16) Ocean in Google Earth will let users dive below the surface of the water to examine wildlife, mountains and shipwrecks in this murky world.
(17) Lara is already going through a lot – shipwreck, major injury, a friend's kidnapping, the threat of death – and adding sexual assault to the mix might just be over-egging the pudding.
(18) Next week, I get to interview a real shipwreck survivor who covered thousands of miles singlehanded, only to be turned over by a giant wave on his way home.
(19) In 1769, the first civilian rescue society was established to look after shipwrecked persons.
(20) Alongside survivors of the shipwreck and those who assisted the rescue operation, the victims' relatives are taking part in a series of commemorative events which will culminate on Sunday evening in a minute's silence marking the exact time the 114,500-tonne ship crashed in the Tyrrhenian Sea.