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Reverse

/ɹɪˈvɜːs/

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noun

  1. The opposite of something.
  2. The act of going backwards; a reversal.
  3. A piece of misfortune; a setback.
  4. The tails side of a coin, or the side of a medal or badge that is opposite the obverse.
  5. The side of something facing away from a viewer, or from what is considered the front; the other side.
  6. The gear setting of an automobile that makes it travel backwards.
  7. A thrust in fencing made with a backward turn of the hand; a backhanded stroke.
  8. A turn or fold made in bandaging, by which the direction of the bandage is changed.

verb

  1. To turn something around so that it faces the opposite direction or runs in the opposite sequence.
  2. To turn something inside out or upside down.
  3. To transpose the positions of two things.
  4. To change totally; to alter to the opposite.
  5. To return, come back.
  6. To turn away; to cause to depart.
  7. To cause to return; to recall.
  8. To revoke a law, or to change a decision into its opposite.
  9. To cause a mechanism or a vehicle to operate or move in the opposite direction to normal.
  10. To change the direction of a reaction such that the products become the reactants and vice-versa.
  11. To place a set of points in the reverse position
  12. (of points) to move from the normal position to the reverse position
  13. To overthrow; to subvert.

adjective

  1. Opposite, contrary; going in the opposite direction.
  2. Pertaining to engines, vehicle movement etc. moving in a direction opposite to the usual direction.
  3. (of points) To be in the non-default position; to be set for the lesser-used route.
  4. Turned upside down; greatly disturbed.
  5. Reversed.
  6. In which cDNA synthetization is obtained from an RNA template.

adverb

  1. In a reverse way or direction; in reverse; upside-down.

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Reverse is a 4-meaning word in English. Medium-length words often have several interesting anagrams.

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