Crossword clues for reversed
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Reverse \Re*verse"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Reversed (r[-e]*v[~e]rst");p. pr. & vb. n. Reversing.] [See Reverse, a., and cf. Revert.]
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To turn back; to cause to face in a contrary direction; to cause to depart.
And that old dame said many an idle verse, Out of her daughter's heart fond fancies to reverse.
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To cause to return; to recall. [Obs.]
And to his fresh remembrance did reverse The ugly view of his deformed crimes.
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To change totally; to alter to the opposite.
Reverse the doom of death.
--Shak.She reversed the conduct of the celebrated vicar of Bray.
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To turn upside down; to invert.
A pyramid reversed may stand upon his point if balanced by admirable skill.
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Hence, to overthrow; to subvert.
These can divide, and these reverse, the state.
--Pope.Custom . . . reverses even the distinctions of good and evil.
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(Law) To overthrow by a contrary decision; to make void; to under or annual for error; as, to reverse a judgment, sentence, or decree.
Reverse arms (Mil.), a position of a soldier in which the piece passes between the right elbow and the body at an angle of 45[deg], and is held as in the illustration.
To reverse an engine or To reverse a machine, to cause it to perform its revolutions or action in the opposite direction.
Syn: To overturn; overset; invert; overthrow; subvert; repeal; annul; revoke; undo.
Reversed \Re*versed"\ (r[-e]*v[~e]rst"), a.
Turned side for side, or end for end; changed to the contrary; specifically (Bot. & Zo["o]l.), sinistrorse or sinistral; as, a reversed, or sinistral, spiral or shell.
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(Law) Annulled and the contrary substituted; as, a reversed judgment or decree.
Reversed positive or Reversed negative (Photog.), a picture corresponding with the original in light and shade, but reversed as to right and left.
--Abney.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: reverse)
WordNet
adj. turned inside out and resewn; "the reversed collar looked as good as new"
turned about in order or relation; "transposed letters" [syn: converse, transposed]
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "reversed".
Tarnians have just bespoken me that their adverse winds have suddenly reversed themselves.
The Scammell reversed out and by the time it was back with the next trailer, the first had been parked and bowsed down with the sprung steel securing shackles.
Ted had been simply reversed by the independence and manliness the broncho boys had exhibited.
Darwin had reversed the usual practice of philosophers and given his esoteric doctrine to the world, while reserving the exoteric for his most intimate and faithful adherents.
There was a complete half-turn to the left, so that the slit-like urinary meatus was reversed and the frenum was above.
The descent of the soul from heaven and its return thither were denoted by a torch borne alternately reversed and upright, and by the descriptions of the passage of spirits, in the round of the metempsychosis, through the planetary gates of the zodiac.
In the reversed semicircle before her is another monogram, Uota or Tuota, a name which perhaps may be translated Uta, Utta, Ida, etc.
Peter felt heat on his face when he saw that several of the women lay on their bellies between the legs of pink men, each with a cock in her mouth, but eyes turned up to the school lesson -- except for one or two who lay reversed atop pink men, also mouthing cocks and presumably enjoying lingual play in their own thighs.
Had Phips acted upon his advice the record of the next few days might have been reversed.
He folded the cape up, slipped it into his pack, holstered the pistolet, clamped his light in his visor, reversed the orientor, picked his wife up in his arms, and started out.
Lubeck was yelling through his trumpet as they reversed the angle of the yards to bring the Principessa round so that the wind would favour her.
The process of redissolution travels upwards from the bases of the tentacles to the glands, and therefore in a reversed direction to that of aggregation.
I have noticed is that when a plant approaches its death-point by reason of excessively high or low temperature, not only is its general responsiveness diminished almost to zero, but even the slight response occasionally becomes reversed.
When he passed a huge amphora tree he reversed his shette and drummed on the monstrous trunk, sending booming echoes into the undergrowth.
Etch A Sketch and the Spirograph, and something in his conjured solitude had followed him out onto the street, then reversed itself to drape all over him anywhere he sat still.