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[ UK /ɹɪvˈɜːs/ ]
[ US /ɹiˈvɝs, ɹɪˈvɝs/ ]
NOUN
  1. the side of a coin or medal that does not bear the principal design
  2. an unfortunate happening that hinders or impedes; something that is thwarting or frustrating
  3. turning in the opposite direction
  4. a relation of direct opposition
    we thought Sue was older than Bill but just the reverse was true
  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. the gears by which the motion of a machine can be reversed
VERB
  1. cancel officially
    lift an embargo
    vacate a death sentence
    He revoked the ban on smoking
  2. reverse the position, order, relation, or condition of
    when forming a question, invert the subject and the verb
  3. change to the contrary
    the tides turned against him
    The trend was reversed
    public opinion turned when it was revealed that the president had an affair with a White House intern
  4. rule against
    The Republicans were overruled when the House voted on the bill
  5. turn inside out or upside down
ADJECTIVE
  1. of the transmission gear causing backward movement in a motor vehicle
    in reverse gear
  2. reversed (turned backward) in order or nature or effect
  3. directed or moving toward the rear
    a rearward glance
    a rearward movement
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How To Use reverse In A Sentence

  • Would reverse flow undergravel filtration be better?
  • You see that you're undershooting and so, leaving the throttle as is, you attempt to flatten your descent path by lifting the nose a bit - and you enter the region of reverse command.
  • An Ohio appellate court last week reversed a lower court ruling that the city's pernicious treatment of marijuana users was unconstitutional under state law.
  • This reverse ekphrasis, with its glimpsed, illegible text, hints at the hidden world of the silent reader. The Times Literary Supplement
  • If we want to avert a very deep recession it is absolutely vital that these psychological factors are reversed.
  • Since the path was so narrow that there was no way to reverse, he had no option but to continue moving forward.
  • The idea was that the content server was responsible for providing a daily reverse-chronologic list of pages that had changed. Scripting News for 4/13/2007 « Scripting News Annex
  • The image is upside-down and reversed left-to-right.
  • In the mirror Dog saw a car nose round the end of the pantechnicon, then quickly reverse out of sight. THE ONLY GAME
  • Both Hyundai and Nissan have reversed their U.S. automotive fortunes but to differing degrees.
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