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What does irreversible mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word irreversible? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Incapable of being reversed or turned about or back; incapable of being made to run backward.
  2. Incapable of being reversed, recalled, repealed, or annulled.
  3. (thermodynamics) Incapable of being reversed to the original state without consumption of free energy and increase of entropy.
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The three recent incidents cannot be bunched together to conclude that an irreversible rot has set in the police department.
Under the current system, most organs are donated by patients on life support machines who die after suffering irreversible brain damage.
Then the president assured corporate America that his administration's repudiation of liberal reformism was irreversible.
A marriage before God is a sacrosanct thing, an act of union in the eyes of God, irreversible and permanent.
He allegedly was over sedated and consequently suffered cardiopulmonary arrest with an ensuing irreversible anoxic brain injury.
Water putty, epoxies, construction glue and silicone sealants can cause irreversible damage to objects, he warned.

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