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Adverbit
- (now rare) In a reverse way or direction; upside-down.
Substantiivit
- The opposite of something.
- 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.
- A thrust in fencing made with a backward turn of the hand; a backhanded stroke.
- (surgery) A turn or fold made in bandaging, by which the direction of the bandage is changed.
Adjektiivit
- Opposite, contrary; going in the opposite direction.
- Pertaining to engines, vehicle movement etc. moving in a direction opposite to the usual direction.
- (rail transport, of points) to be in the non-default position; to be set for the lesser-used route.
- Turned upside down; greatly disturbed.
- (botany) Reversed.
Verbit
- (intransitive) To turn something around such that it faces in the opposite direction.
- (intransitive) To turn something inside out or upside down.
- (intransitive) To transpose the positions of two things.
- (transitive) To change totally; to alter to the opposite.
- (obsolete, intransitive) To return, come back.
- (obsolete, transitive) To turn away; to cause to depart.
- (obsolete, transitive) To cause to return; to recall.
- (legal) To revoke a law, or to change a decision into its opposite.
- (ergative) To cause a mechanism or a vehicle to operate or move in the opposite direction to normal.
- (chemistry) To change the direction of a reaction such that the products become the reactants and vice-versa.
- (rail transport, transitive) To place a set of points in the reverse position
- (rail transport, intransitive, of points) to move from the normal position to the reverse position
- To overthrow; to subvert.
Esimerkit
- The mirror showed us a reverse view of the scene.
- We ate the meal in reverse order, starting with dessert and ending with the starter.
- He selected reverse gear.
- He found the sea diverse / With many a windy storm reverse.
- a reverse shell
- they three smote hym at onys with their spearys, and with fors of themselff they smote Sir Launcelottis horse revers to the erthe.
- The man was killed to feed his image fat / Within this pictured world that ran reverse, / Where miracles alone were ever plain.
- We believed the Chinese weren't ready for us. In fact, the reverse was true.
- By a reverse of fortune, Stephen becomes rich.
- In fact, though the Russians did not yet know it, the British had met with a reverse.
- A pyramid reversed may stand upon his point if balanced by admirable skill.
- Reverse the doom of death.
- She reversed the conduct of the celebrated vicar of Bray.
- Bene they all dead, and laide in dolefull herse? / Or doen they onely sleepe, and shall againe reuerse?
- And that old dame said many an idle verse, / Out of her daughter's heart fond fancies to reverse.
- And to his fresh remembrance did reverse / The ugly view of his deformed crimes.
- to reverse a judgment, sentence, or decree
- These can divide, and these reverse, the state.
- Custom [...] reverses even the distinctions of good and evil.
Taivutusmuodot
| Partisiipin perfekti | reversed | Partisiipin perfekti | revers'd (vanhentunut) |
| Imperfekti | reversed | Imperfekti | revers'd (vanhentunut) |
| Partisiipin preesens | reversing | Monikko | reverses |
| Komparatiivi | more reverse | Superlatiivi | most reverse |
| Yksikön kolmannen persoonan indikatiivin preesens | reverses | Yksikön kolmannen persoonan indikatiivin preesens | reverseth (vanhahtava) |