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Reversed   /rɪvˈərst/  /rivˈərst/   Listen
verb
Reverse  v. t.  (past & past part. reversed;pres. part. reversing)  
1.
To turn back; to cause to face in a contrary direction; to cause to depart. "And that old dame said many an idle verse, Out of her daughter's heart fond fancies to reverse."
2.
To cause to return; to recall. (Obs.) "And to his fresh remembrance did reverse The ugly view of his deformed crimes."
3.
To change totally; to alter to the opposite. "Reverse the doom of death." "She reversed the conduct of the celebrated vicar of Bray."
4.
To turn upside down; to invert. "A pyramid reversed may stand upon his point if balanced by admirable skill."
5.
Hence, to overthrow; to subvert. "These can divide, and these reverse, the state." "Custom... reverses even the distinctions of good and evil."
6.
(Law) To overthrow by a contrary decision; to make void; to under or annual for error; as, to reverse a judgment, sentence, or decree.
Reverse arms (Mil.), a position of a soldier in which the piece passes between the right elbow and the body at an angle of 45°, and is held as in the illustration.
To reverse an engine or To reverse a machine, to cause it to perform its revolutions or action in the opposite direction.
Synonyms: To overturn; overset; invert; overthrow; subvert; repeal; annul; revoke; undo.


Reverse  v. i.  
1.
To return; to revert. (Obs.)
2.
To become or be reversed.


adjective
Reversed  adj.  
1.
Turned side for side, or end for end; changed to the contrary; specifically (Bot. & Zool.), Sinistrorse or sinistral; as, a reversed, or sinistral, spiral or shell.
2.
(Law) Annulled and the contrary substituted; as, a reversed judgment or decree.
Reversed positive or Reversed negative (Photog.), a picture corresponding with the original in light and shade, but reversed as to right and left.





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"Reversed" Quotes from Famous Books



... stream came from. But the sailboat could not go under the bridge, nor even make a landing on the shore without risk of getting aground. The next day we came back in a rowboat to follow the clue of curiosity. The tide was high now, and we passed with the reversed current under the bridge, almost bumping our heads against the timbers. Emerging upon the pond, we rowed across its shallow, weed-encumbered waters, and were introduced without ceremony to one of the most agreeable brooks that ...
— Fisherman's Luck • Henry van Dyke
... two large cucumbers in private, felt very ill, and confided his anguish to Ned, imploring him to do something. Ned good-naturedly recommended a mustard plaster and a hot flat iron to the feet; only in applying these remedies he reversed the order of things, and put the plaster on the feet, the flat iron on the stomach, and poor Stuffy was found in the barn with blistered ...
— Little Men - Life at Plumfield With Jo's Boys • Louisa May Alcott
... Ladd's patent, and it was carried through all the State Courts and the Supreme Court of Oregon; each, in turn, giving adverse decisions. At last, in the United States Supreme Court, Associate Justice Miller reversed the decisions of all the lower tribunals, and ordered the land back to the heirs of Mrs. Cruthers. The ...
— History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II • Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Matilda Joslyn Gage
... is enough. We accept the verdict of mortality uncomplainingly—nay, we would not wish it to be reversed, ...
— Pebbles on the Shore • Alpha of the Plough (Alfred George Gardiner)
... case of this sort of apparent inference is what is called the Conversion of propositions; which consists in turning the predicate into a subject, and the subject into a predicate, and framing out of the same terms thus reversed, another proposition, which must be true if the former is true. Thus, from the particular affirmative proposition, Some A is B, we may infer that Some B is A. From the universal negative, No A is B, we may ...
— A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive • John Stuart Mill


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