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He suffered an irreversible loss of vision.
The crisis has done irreversible harm to the countries' relations.
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Around 30% of hormonal therapy patients discontinue treatment within four years and are left with effects that are often irreversible.
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Sara Stockton, New York Daily News, 18 June 2024
Type 1 diabetes can be treated only by injecting insulin and is irreversible.
—Jamie Hartmann-Boyce, Discover Magazine, 11 June 2024
Some Arab Barometer findings, however, also reveal that Arabs’ growing skepticism about the United States’ role in the Middle East is not irreversible.
—Michael Robbins, Foreign Affairs, 11 June 2024
Ornish said decades ago, mainstream medicine thought that heart disease was irreversible.
—Ken Alltucker, USA TODAY, 7 June 2024
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Sara Stockton, New York Daily News, 18 June 2024
Type 1 diabetes can be treated only by injecting insulin and is irreversible.
—Jamie Hartmann-Boyce, Discover Magazine, 11 June 2024
Some Arab Barometer findings, however, also reveal that Arabs’ growing skepticism about the United States’ role in the Middle East is not irreversible.
—Michael Robbins, Foreign Affairs, 11 June 2024
Ornish said decades ago, mainstream medicine thought that heart disease was irreversible.
—Ken Alltucker, USA TODAY, 7 June 2024
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irreversible
adjective
ir·re·vers·ible
ˌir-i-ˈvər-sə-bəl 
: impossible to reverse
an irreversible chemical reaction
irreversible damage
Medical Definition
irreversible
adjective
ir·re·vers·ible
ˌir-i-ˈvər-sə-bəl
: incapable of being reversed : not reversible
an irreversible medical procedure
: as
a
: impossible to make run or take place backward
irreversible chemical syntheses
b
of a colloid
: incapable of undergoing transformation from sol to gel or vice versa
c
of a pathological process
: of such severity that recovery is impossible
irreversible brain damage
Legal Definition
irreversible
adjective
ir·re·ver·si·ble
ˌir-rə-ˈvər-sə-bəl
: not reversible
an irreversible decision
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