verb
- Change to the contrary.
- usage: "The trend was reversed"; "the tides turned against him"; "public opinion turned when it was revealed that the president had an affair with a White House intern"
- synonyms: change by reversal, turn, reverse
- Turn inside out or upside down.
- Rule against.
- usage: "The Republicans were overruled when the House voted on the bill"
- Cancel officially.
- usage: "He revoked the ban on smoking"; "lift an embargo"; "vacate a death sentence"
- Reverse the position, order, relation, or condition of.
- usage: "when forming a question, invert the subject and the verb"
adjective
- Turned inside out and resewn.
- usage: "the reversed collar looked as good as new"
- Turned about in order or relation.
- usage: "transposed letters"
- synonyms: converse, transposed
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