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ADJECTIVE (2)

1. turned inside out and resewn;
- Example: "the reversed collar looked as good as new"

2. turned about in order or relation;
- Example: "transposed letters"
[syn: converse, reversed, transposed]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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.] 1. To turn back; to cause to face in a contrary direction; to cause to depart. [1913 Webster] And that old dame said many an idle verse, Out of her daughter's heart fond fancies to reverse. --Spenser. [1913 Webster] 2. To cause to return; to recall. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] And to his fresh remembrance did reverse The ugly view of his deformed crimes. --Spenser. [1913 Webster] 3. To change totally; to alter to the opposite. [1913 Webster] Reverse the doom of death. --Shak. [1913 Webster] She reversed the conduct of the celebrated vicar of Bray. --Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster] 4. To turn upside down; to invert. [1913 Webster] A pyramid reversed may stand upon his point if balanced by admirable skill. --Sir W. Temple. [1913 Webster] 5. Hence, to overthrow; to subvert. [1913 Webster] These can divide, and these reverse, the state. --Pope. [1913 Webster] Custom . . . reverses even the distinctions of good and evil. --Rogers. [1913 Webster] 6. (Law) To overthrow by a contrary decision; to make void; to under or annual for error; as, to reverse a judgment, sentence, or decree. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] Syn: To overturn; overset; invert; overthrow; subvert; repeal; annul; revoke; undo. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Reversed \Re*versed"\ (r[-e]*v[~e]rst"), a. 1. Turned side for side, or end for end; changed to the contrary; specifically (Bot. & Zool.), sinistrorse or sinistral; as, a reversed, or sinistral, spiral or shell. [1913 Webster] 2. (Law) Annulled and the contrary substituted; as, a reversed judgment or decree. [1913 Webster] Reversed positive or Reversed negative (Photog.), a picture corresponding with the original in light and shade, but reversed as to right and left. --Abney. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

reversed adj 1: turned inside out and resewn; "the reversed collar looked as good as new" 2: turned about in order or relation; "transposed letters" [syn: converse, reversed, transposed]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

28 Moby Thesaurus words for "reversed": arsy-varsy, ass over elbows, back, back-to-front, backward, backwards, capsized, chiastic, counter, everted, hyperbatic, inside out, introverted, invaginated, inversed, inverted, outside in, palindromic, reflex, resupinate, retroverted, topsy-turvy, transposed, turned around, upside-down, wrong side out, wrong-way, wrong-way around