reverse
/ɹɪˈvɝs/ verb B2- To turn something around so that it faces the opposite direction or runs in the opposite sequence. · to reverse the order of books on a shelf· to reverse a portion of video footage
- To turn something inside out or upside down.
- To transpose the positions of two things.
- To change totally; to alter to the opposite. · All trends reverse eventually.
- To revoke a law, or to change a decision into its opposite. · to reverse a judgment, sentence, or decree
- To cause a mechanism to operate or move in the opposite direction to normal; to drive a vehicle in the direction the driver has the back.
- To change the direction of a reaction such that the products become the reactants and vice-versa.
- To place (a set of points) in the reverse position.
He/she/it reverses · Past reversed · Past participle reversed · -ing form reversing
Verb forms
- Base form
- reverse
- He/she/it
- reverses
- Past
- reversed
- Past participle
- reversed
- -ing form
- reversing
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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“Good,” said Monte Cristo to Morrel, who was at his house when the news arrived of the strange reverse of fortune of which Danglars had been the victim, “I have just made a discovery for twenty-five thousand francs, for which I would have paid a hundred thousand.”
Incidentally, I may tell you that we are doing the reverse of what you very justly blame, and that we are endeavouring to prevent anything like public exposure of private matters which must necessarily follow when once the case is fairly in the hands of the official police.
I have great hopes of finding him quite the reverse.
“Sire, I am sorry to tell your majesty a cruel fact; but the feeling in Dauphiné is quite the reverse of that in Provence or Languedoc.
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