1STOP something THAT IS HAPPENINGirreversibledamage, change etc is so serious or so great that you cannot change something back to how it was before 〔損害、變化等〕不可挽回的,不可逆轉的OPP reversible
Fossil fuels have caused irreversible damage to the environment
礦物燃料已對環境造成了不可挽回的破壞。
2if an illness or bad physical condition is irreversible, it will continue to exist and cannot be cured 不能治愈的;不能挽救的
Miller is in an irreversible coma.
米勒一直昏迷不醒,無法挽救了。
irreversible blindness
不可逆性失明
—irreversiblyadverbadv
His reputation was irreversibly damaged by the affair.