reverse
/ɹɪˈvɝs/ noun C2- The opposite of something. · Division is the reverse of multiplication.· The Sun doesn't orbit the Earth—quite the reverse, in fact.
- The act of going backwards; a reversal.
- A piece of misfortune; a setback.
- The tails side of a coin, or the side of a medal or badge that is opposite the obverse.
- The side of something facing away from a viewer, or from what is considered the front; the other side.
- The gear setting of an automobile that makes it travel backwards. (Denoted with symbol R on a shifter's labeling.) · I shifted into reverse and was just about to back up when our silly cat walked behind the car! Honk honk, kitty! Get out of there!
- A thrust in fencing made with a backward turn of the hand; a backhanded stroke.
- A turn or fold made in bandaging, by which the direction of the bandage is changed.
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“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.
“The paper is thin, and the reverse will give the message.
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.
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