irreversible

Preposition: on

viewing: A number of things continue to bother one about Irreversible on second viewing.

Adjective complement with noun phrase

make: In the end devolution in Northern Ireland is an essential part of making this peace process irreversible.

Modifies a noun

• dismantlement: First, we cannot accept anything less than the complete, verifiable, and irreversible dismantlement of the North's nuclear programs.
• blindness: They may also be the first to assess objectively irreversible blindness.
• elimination: In that context, he would endorse an agenda that gave guidelines for the irreversible elimination of nuclear weapons.
• damage: Planners said the plan risks irreversible damage to a fragile natural area within the Wester Ross National Scenic Area.
• coma: Alternatively, should a relative be given the choice on behalf of their loved one if they fall into an irreversible coma?
• inhibition: Penicillin, for example, causes the death of bacteria due to irreversible inhibition of an enzyme needed to form the bacterial cell wall.

Modifying Another Word

• seemingly: With the trend seemingly irreversible, newspapers knew they had to develop and diversify, or else risk fizzling out altogether.
• essentially: These risks are intensified by the fact they are essentially irreversible.
• potentially: Time is running out on a problem, which, if real, is hugely serious in its impacts and potentially irreversible.
• effectively: She pointed out the GATS, however, is effectively irreversible.
• possibly: The way we currently produce our energy is leading to enormous and possibly irreversible environmental damage.
• largely: The trend toward older populations is largely irreversible, with young populations becoming static or falling.

Used with adjective complement

• become: The Arctic, they warn, could already have reached tipping point - the moment beyond which the warming becomes irreversible.
• seem: In any event, the trend toward equal rights for both genders seems irreversible.
• make: In the last decade great improvements have been achieved and these changes must now be made irreversible.
• consider: Once cirrhosis has developed it is usually considered irreversible, even if the inflammation which caused it improves.
• prove: Our fear is that the impacts of any further concentration of research funds may prove irreversible.
• cause: E's can contain toxic other chemicals like MPTP, a drug known to cause irreversible Parkinson's disease.