irretrievable

Modifies a noun

• breakdown: There are four ways to evidence the irretrievable breakdown of a marriage.
• loss: The first mourns the irretrievable loss of one single, continuous past, its dissolution into fragments.
• damage: In some cases, irretrievable damage will be done to students ' education.
• degradation: An analysis by Samuel J. Schultz in his basic introduction to the Old Testament describes the irretrievable degradation of the Canaanites.
• disaster: It swept us into the irretrievable disaster of sending Gordon to the Sudan.
• destruction: However, the plan was attacked by opponents of wind farms in Scotland, who fear the irretrievable destruction of the landscape.

Used with adjective complement

• become: We would also make the point that when forestry is planted land becomes irretrievable to farming except in the long term.