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Evert

Evert \E*vert"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Everted; p. pr. & vb. n. Everting.] [L. evertere. See Everse.]

  1. To overthrow; to subvert. [R.]
    --Ayliffe.

  2. To turn outwards, or inside out, as an intestine.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
evert

1530s, from Latin evertere "turn out, turn over, overthrow," from assimilated form of ex- "out" (see ex-) + vertere "to turn" (see versus). Related: Everted; everting.

Wiktionary
evert

vb. (context transitive English) To turn inside out, typically from within, like a pocket being emptied.

Wikipedia
Evert

Evert may refer to

  • the verb, giving Eversion
  • Alexei Evert - General in the Russian Empire
  • Evert, 1995 Eddie Meduza song
  • Chris Evert - tennis player
  • Evert Eloranta - Finnish politician
Evert (song)

"Evert" is a song written by Eddie Meduza.

Usage examples of "evert".

She had undoubtedly seen the everted skins of snakes cast on the ground or caught in the forks of trees, but undoubtedly none of the males of her acquaintance had ever reversed the ecdysial process in this priapic particular.

It looked for all the thousand worlds like an everted Sarlacc as it gobbled up the shattered duracrete.

It was a sphere in space, like always, and an everted sphere in a different space.

Looking above, the everted earth was dissolving into sunshine-first the night face, then the brighter day face-and he was thinking about everything, and nothing.

She lived on a cold planet with ammonia seas and a weak red sun, and its sky everted when she was a little girl.

As this takes place, the margins gradually become a little everted, so that the spikes, which at first intercrossed, at last project in two parallel rows.

The attachment between Evert Beekman and Beulah Willoughby was of a character so simple, so sincere, and so natural, as scarce to furnish materials for a brief episode.

A minute later, he re-issued, bearing his arms, followed by his wife and Beulah, the latter pressing little Evert to her bosom.

She and Beulah were in the nursery with little Evert, and my father was in the fields.

As for Beulah, gentle, peaceful, and forgiving as she was by nature, the care of little Evert aroused all the mother within her, and something like a frown that betokened resolution was, for a novelty, seen on her usually placid face.

To liberate Bob, to lead him into the Hut, to offer his manly protection to her mother, and Beulah, and little Evert, at such an instant, caught her imagination, and appealed to all her affections.

Beekman was never seen to smile, from the moment he first beheld the dead body of Beulah, lying with little Evert in her arms.

The two invokers, judges and executioners of that law sat their riding beats, watching, less than two long paces from where Shane Evert stood among the crowd of humans on foot.

Her full lips were further everted by a small lip plug of jade and the pointed bronze caps that reinforced her teeth.

The mouth is opened widely, with the upper lip strongly retracted, which wrinkles the sides of the nose, and with the lower lip protruded and everted as much as possible.