挽waan5回wui4

English

1. to retrieve
2. to rescue a situation
3. to reverse an unfavourable situation; to retrieve
4. to redeem

粵語 — Cantonese

1. 扭轉不利嘅局面；去救返一啲嘢

Examples

• 有啲嘢講咗出口就冇得挽回㗎喇。

  You can't change your words.

• 但与此同时，它却在消逝：时间无可挽回地流逝， 而我们却四处游荡，成为我们对细节的热爱的囚徒。

  But meanwhile it flees: time flees irretrievably, while we wander around, prisoners of our love of detail.

  Tatoeba · Attack_Infantry CC BY