beyond repair
Cannot be fixed
Beyond repair describes damage so severe that fixing it is impossible or impractical.
A car totaled in an accident is beyond repair.
The phrase extends to abstractions: a relationship beyond repair cannot be mended, trust beyond repair cannot be restored.
The scandal left his reputation beyond repair.
- destroyedMade to cease existing
- wreckedUtterly destroyed
- irretrievableImpossible to regain
- shatteredBroken into fragments
- falling apartGradually breaking into pieces
shot to pieces · broken down · collapsed · unusable · ruined · kaput · totaled · total loss · write-off · dysfunctional · irreconcilable · lost cause · far gone · unsalvageable · done for · dead in the water · on its last legs · too far gone
- damageddamaged, broken, wrecked, ruined, destroyed
- ruinedruined, destroyed, wrecked, demolished, obliterated
beyond repairrepairable
Able to be fixed
fixable · salvageable · mendable · restorable · recoverable
beyond repairpristine
Pure and untouched
mint condition · brand new · intact · undamaged · good as new
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