[ adv ] in an irretrievable manner <adv.all> it is irretrievably lost
Irretrievably \Ir`re*triev"a*bly\, adv. In an irretrievable manner.
Like Tylenol and Perrier before it, the Sudafed incident is raising sticky questions over how advertisers should respond to a crisis that could irretrievably damage a product's image.
"The Communist Party irretrievably lost Beijing last year," says a Chinese scholar, speaking on the condition of anonymity.
Mr. Yeltsin has surrounded himself with free-market intellectuals and, according to reformers, has irretrievably tied himself to capitalism.
"Because Mr. McNamara will neither resign nor step aside temporarily, the credibility and operations of this office will continue to be damaged, perhaps irretrievably, unless he is removed," the letter said.