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Reverse

noun

1.

A relation of direct opposition. Synonyms: contrary, opposite.

2.

The gears by which the motion of a machine can be reversed. Synonym: reverse gear.

3.

An unfortunate happening that hinders or impedes; something that is thwarting or frustrating. Synonyms: black eye, blow, reversal, setback.

4.

The side of a coin or medal that does not bear the principal design. Synonym: verso.

5.

(American football) a running play in which a back running in one direction hands the ball to a back running in the opposite direction.

6.

Turning in the opposite direction. Synonyms: reversal, reversion, turnabout, turnaround.

verb

(past & past part. reversed;pres. part. reversing)

1.

Change to the contrary. Synonyms: change by reversal, turn. "The tides turned against him" , "Public opinion turned when it was revealed that the president had an affair with a White House intern"

2.

Turn inside out or upside down. Synonyms: invert, turn back.

3.

Rule against. Synonyms: override, overrule, overthrow, overturn.

4.

Cancel officially. Synonyms: annul, countermand, lift, overturn, repeal, rescind, revoke, vacate. "Lift an embargo" , "Vacate a death sentence"

5.

Reverse the position, order, relation, or condition of. Synonym: invert.

adjective

1.

Directed or moving toward the rear. Synonym: rearward. "A rearward movement"

2.

Of the transmission gear causing backward movement in a motor vehicle.

3.

Reversed (turned backward) in order or nature or effect. Synonym: inverse.

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"Reverse" Quotes from Famous Books

... each team is unique. Each has gone through the championship series without a single reverse. Perhaps never in their history have both universities been more worthily represented than by the teams that are to contest to-day the championship of ...

— The Prospector - A Tale of the Crow's Nest Pass • Ralph Connor

... advice of his father at the last moment before he sailed, and he asked himself if, while the prisoner was thus exciting his sympathy and compassion, the latter was not expecting the Arran would appear and reverse the fortunes ...

— On The Blockade - SERIES: The Blue and the Gray Afloat • Oliver Optic

... passed, and at this particular crisis in which I find myself here, be the safest line."[16] Stanley, then, limited his {145} choice of men, and in the event of a crisis, was prepared that he should risk a defeat and the violent imposition of an alien ministry, on the chance that such a reverse might provoke a loyalist uprising to defend the British connection. Baldwin dreamed of a consistently Radical cabinet. MacNab, with his eyes shut to the consequences, seems to have considered a leap in ...

— British Supremacy & Canadian Self-Government - 1839-1854 • J. L. Morison

... would have resulted in a lump of metal, just as the Siamese silver coins are the result of doubling up silver rings.[282] The play of custom and convention is well shown by the use of the Macedonian coins in England. The coins of Philip bore on the obverse a head with a wreath, and on the reverse a chariot driver drawn by two horses. In Britain this coin became a sign of value and lost its reference to the sovereign. It is possible to show the order of the reigns of the kings by the successive omissions of parts of the figures, until only the ...

— Folkways - A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals • William Graham Sumner

... interior, proclamations of a still more bombastic nature were despatched, in which they were assured that a reverse of this kind "weighed nothing in the balance of destiny of Peru. Providence protects us, and by this action will accelerate the ruin of the enemies of Peru. Proud of their first victory, they will spare us part of our march in search of them. Fear not! the army that drove ...

— Narrative of Services in the Liberation of Chili, Peru and Brazil, - from Spanish and Portuguese Domination, Volume 1 • Thomas Cochrane, Tenth Earl of Dundonald

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