Reversed

Definitions: Reversed

Reversed

Adjective

1. Turned inside out and resewn; "the reversed collar looked as good as new".

2. Turned about in order or relation; "transposed letters".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "reversed" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Mining

Slang in 1811

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Synonyms: Reversed

Crosswords: Reversed

Put a bullet in your head, now that our positions are reversed. (The Replacement Killers; writing credit: Ken Sanzel)

I'd do the same for you if our positions were reversed. (The Replacement Killers; writing credit: Ken Sanzel)

Would you prepared if gravity reversed itself? (Real Genius; writing credit: Neal Israel; Pat Proft)

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Books

• Reversed Rescue with Toy (reference)

• The Fool Reversed (reference)

• The Politics and Morality of Deviance: Moral Panics, Drug Abuse, Deviant Science, and Reversed Stigmatization (Suny Series in Deviance and Social Co) (reference)

  (more book examples)

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[La diarrea puede matar a tus hijos] [images reversed arabic language].Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Wreck of the Spanish cruiser Reina Cristina, photographed from aft looking forward with four U.S. Navy sailors posing amidships, sometime after the battle. Note poop deck beams distorted by fire, with wooden decking burned off. This image may be reversed. Other views of the wreck show the after smokestack leaning to port, not starboard.Credit: NAVY.

It's an ominous trend and it has to be reversed!.Credit: Library of Congress.

Hammond Organ Company, business at 50 W. 57th St., New York City. Moorish room, reversed light.Credit: Library of Congress.

Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts. Dining hall lounge, reversed lighting.Credit: Library of Congress.

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

The German literate reversed this process with the profane French literature. (reference)

I do not believe we should all have slept so soundly had the positions been reversed and if some Communist or neo-Fascist State monopolized for the time being these dread agencies. ("Iron Curtain" Speech)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Oddly enough their parts seemed reversed.

Al backed and filled on the narrow road, until he had reversed his direction.

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Health

This tragic trend must be reversed. (references)

The progression of kidney disease can be slowed, but it cannot be reversed. (references)

But if your kidneys are not seriously damaged, acute renal failure may be reversed. (references)

Business

However, the financial crisis hasn�t reversed the overall trend of the development of leasing. (references)

In 2000, the situation has reversed and the public sector represents only 30 percent of the market. (references)

The Supreme People's Procuratorate reported in March that it had reversed 570 "incorrect arrest decisions" in the previous year. (references)

Civil Liberties

Greece

Her conviction was reversed on appeal in December. (references)

Turkey

However, a higher administrative court reversed the YOK decision in May. (references)

Mozambique

Although the boy returned to Tanzania, the Minister of Justice and provincial governor reversed the order. (references)

Economic History

Lesotho

Southern hemisphere seasons are reversed. (references)

Indonesia

In the first half of 2001, the situation reversed. (references)

Mexico

The trade balance was dramatically reversed as a consequence. (references)

Human Rights

Indonesia

Initial judgments rarely are reversed in the appeals process, although sentences can be increased or reduced. (references)

Iran

According to HRW, during the summer, the Supreme Court reversed the convictions of the 15 Ministry of Intelligence officials. (references)

El Salvador

The Attorney General challenged the paroles, and on October 9, an appeals court reversed the lower court's decision to grant parole. (references)

Minorities

Japan

In 1996 the Home Affairs Ministry reversed the long-held national policy of opposition to localities lifting the Japanese nationality requirement for public servants. (references)

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Widespread firing of ethnic minorities during and after the war has not been reversed in most cases, and members of the ethnic majority in a region often are hired over former employees who are minorities. (references)

Political Economy

JAPAN

Although Japan had been moving towards untying its aid, during recent years this trend has reversed. (references)

Political Rights

Venezuela

In Amazonas state, following a recount of all votes for governor, the CNE reversed the results of the governor's race, announcing on October 10, 2000, that Liborio Guarulla of the Popular Workers' Party (PPT) party had defeated Bernabe Gutierrez of the Democratic Action (AD) party by 10,971 votes to 10,534. Gutierrez called the CNE decision "arbitrary and unjust" but relinquished the governorship peacefully. (references)

Trade

Panama

The new Government has maintained this policy with regard to manufactured products but has largely reversed it for agricultural products. (references)

Travel

New Zealand

The seasons are reversed from the Northern Hemisphere with summer weather during the 5-month November to March period. (references)

Women

Afghanistan

The Taliban reversed its decision the next day, apparently accepting the WFP's explanation that female staff of the bakeries were not direct hire WFP employees and therefore not subject to the July 6 order. (references)

Japan

In March the Hiroshima High Court reversed a 1998 Yamaguchi District Court ruling that had ordered the Government to pay $2,542 (300,000 yen) in state compensation to three Korean former comfort women for neglecting its constitutional duty to enact compensation legislation following the Government's 1993 admission. (references)

Worker Rights

Russia

In February the union again appealed to the supreme arbitration court, which denied the union's request that the initial ruling by the Sverdlovsk Court of Arbitration be reversed. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "reversed": be reversed ♦ laterally reversed image ♦ reversed band ♦ reversed calf ♦ reversed copy ♦ reversed fault ♦ reversed flow ♦ reversed fold ♦ reversed lamb ♦ reversed negative ♦ reversed onus of proof ♦ reversed picture ♦ reversed positive ♦ reversed side ♦ reversed type. Additional references.

Beginning with "reversed": reversed-field, reversed-phase, reversed-s.

Ending with "reversed": laterally-reversed, multiplication-reversed, sex-role-reversed, time-reversed.

Afrikaan

teenoorgesteld (adverse, alien, contrary, opposite, reverse). (various references)

Chinese 

扭转 (Reversing, twisted, twisting). (various references)

Danish

reversforkastning (back thrusting, reverse fold-fault:2)reverse fault, reversed fault, thrust fault), retvendt (accurate to side, non-reversed image, right reading, right way round, true sided, true to side), onvendt kløver (Persian clover, reversed clover), ensretning ved invers multiplikation (multiplication-reversed rectification), inverteret soevnrytme (reversed sleeping-waking rhythm), kontraspant (reversed frame), last med modsat retning (reversed load), modsatrettet spor (reversed trace), omlagt haandtag (reversed lever), omvendt bevisbyrde (reversed onus of proof), en situation,hvor en dom,der endnu ikke har opnået retskraft,endnu kan ændres (to remedy the inconvenience which would result if a judgment which has not yet become res judicata were reversed), omvendt virkning (reversed effect), tilbagestrømning (backflow, regeneration, return flow, reversed flow), overkippet fold (inverted fold, overfold, overturned fold, reversed fold), paradox virkning (reversed effect), siderigtigt (accurate to side, non-reversed image, right reading, right way round, true sided, true to side), spejlvendt (laterally reversed, reversed image, reversed left to right), sporskifte i modsat stilling (points in reversed position, reversed switch), omvendt køper (reversed twill). (various references)

Dutch

tegengesteld (adverse, alien, contrary, opposite, reverse), omgekeerd (reverse, vice-versa), averechts (reverse). (various references)

Esperanto

inversa (reverse). (various references)

Faeroese

øvutur (reverse). (various references)

Finnish

vastakkainen (contrary, opposite, reverse). (various references)

French

inverse (reciprocal, reverse). (various references)

Frisian

earsling (reverse). (various references)

German

umgekehrt (contrariwise, contrary, converse, conversely, inverse, inversely, inverted, opposite, retrograde, reverse, the other way around, vice versa). (various references)

Greek 

ανάστροφη ροή (reversed flow), ταινία από βακέτα (reverse side, reversed side), τριφύλλι το ευειδές (Persian clover, reversed clover), αλλαγή τροχιάς διευθετημένη ανάστροφα (points in reversed position, reversed switch), αλλαγή σε ανάστροφη θέση (points in reversed position, reversed switch), αντίστροφο φορτίο (reversed load), αντιστροφή του βάρους απόδειξης (reversed onus of proof), ορθή ανάγνωση (accurate to side, non-reversed image, right reading, right way round, true sided, true to side), ανάστροφη θέση αλλαγής τροχιάς (points in reversed position, reversed switch), μοχλός ανεστραμμένος (reversed lever), ανεστραμμένο ίχνος (reversed trace), ανεστραμμένος νομέας (reversed frame), ανόρθωση ανάστροφης διεύθυνσης με το φαινόμενο πολλαπλασιασμού (multiplication-reversed rectification), ασαφής χαρακτήρας δικαστικής αποφάσεως η οποία δεν απέκτησε ισχύ δεδικασμένου (to remedy the inconvenience which would result if a judgment which has not yet become res judicata were reversed), είδωλο μη ανεστραμένο (accurate to side, non-reversed image, right reading, right way round, true sided, true to side), εικόνα ανεστραμένη γεωμετρικά (laterally reversed, reversed image, reversed left to right), ημιανεστραμμένη πτυχή (inverted fold, overfold, overturned fold, reversed fold), ανάστροφο πτυχωσιγενές ρήγμα (reverse fold-fault:2)reverse fault, reversed fault, thrust fault). (various references)

Hebrew 

מהופך (overturned, upside down). (various references)

Italian

raddrizzamento a moltiplicazione inversa (multiplication-reversed rectification), piega-faglia inversa (reverse fold-fault:2)reverse fault, reversed fault, thrust fault), capovolgere (be reversed, capsize, invert, keel, overset, overturn, reverse, tilt, tip, turn upside down, upset), carico invertito (reversed load), corrente invertita (reversed flow), immagine ribaltata (inverted left-to-right image, laterally reversed image, mirror image, read wrong image), immagine speculare (inverted left-to-right image, laterally reversed image, mirror image, read wrong image), inversione del sonno (reversed sleeping-waking rhythm), inversione dell'attività (reversed effect), inversione dell'onere della prova (reversed onus of proof), agnello rovesciato (reverse lamb, reversed lamb), piega rovesciata (inverted fold, overfold, overturned fold, reversed fold), vitello rovesciato impermeabile (reverse calf, reversed calf), precarietà di una sentenza che non è ancora passata in giudicato (to remedy the inconvenience which would result if a judgment which has not yet become res judicata were reversed), saia invertita (reversed twill), scambio in posizione rovescia (points in reversed position, reversed switch), scambio rovescio (points in reversed position, reversed switch), schiappa rovesciata impermeabile (reverse side, reversed side), traccia invertita (reversed trace), trifoglio persico (Persian clover, reversed clover), trifoglio resupinato (Persian clover, reversed clover), leva rovescia (reversed lever). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

倒さ (inverted, upside-down). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

さかさ (inversion, inverted, reverse, upside down, upside-down). (various references)

Korean 

반전하는. (various references)

Manx

immanit ergooyl. (various references)

Pig Latin

eversedray

Portuguese

inverso (backward, converse, equivalent, inversely, inverter, reciprocal, retrograde, reverse). (various references)

Spanish

al revés (backward, backwards, on the contrary, reverse, the other way around, upside down, upside-down, vice-versa, wrong), al contrario (on the contrary, reverse). (various references)

Swedish

uppochnedvänd (inverted, topsy turvy, upside down, upturned). (various references)

Welsh

adfarn (reversed judgement). (various references)

contraria, contrariae, contrarias, contrarii, contrario, contrarios, contrarium, contrarius, Trifolium formosum Curt. ex DC., Trifolium resupinatum L.. (various references)

Misspellings

"Reversed" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: peversed, repermed, reverbed, reversi. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: deserver, reserved.

-1 letter: deserve, reserve, revered, reveres, reverse, severed, severer.

-2 letters: reeved, reeves, reseed, revere, revers, seeder, served, server, severe, veered, versed, verser.

-3 letters: deers, drees, erred, redes, reeds, reeve, resee, seder, sered, serer, serve, sever, veers, verse.

-4 letters: deer, dees, dere, devs, dree, errs, ever, eves, rede, reds, reed, rees, revs, seed, seer, sere, veer, vees.

+1 letter: deservers, preserved, reverends, verderers.

+2 letters: deliverers, persevered, redelivers, reobserved, reservedly, reserviced, resilvered, resurveyed, unreserved.

+3 letters: overdressed, overdresses, overspender, overstrewed, underserved, vinedresser.

+4 letters: eavesdropper, overasserted, overmastered, overpersuade, overserviced, overspenders, overstressed, perseverated, redeliveries, redevelopers, rediscovered, reservedness, unreservedly, vinedressers.

+5 letters: cryopreserved, daredevilries, eavesdroppers, overadvertise, overdecorates, overexercised, overharvested, overimpressed, overpersuaded, overpersuades, overprocessed, overresponded, overstretched, peradventures, pervertedness, predeliveries, rediscoveries, tergiversated.

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